Las Vegas
Worth seeing in and around Las Vegas
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 05University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Public research university in Paradise, Nevada, United States
7.5 km · Wikipedia - 06
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Las Vegas
- Airports
- Harry Reid (LAS), 10 km · Palm Springs (PSP), 289 km · San Bernardino (SBD), 300 km
- Palm Springs → Las Vegas291 km · quickest by air, 5h 41m · $130–190
- San Bernardino → Las Vegas302 km · quickest by air, 3h 52m · $130–200
- Ontario → Las Vegas328 km · quickest by air, 3h 54m · $130–200
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Las Vegas
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Las Vegas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAir taxi and air charter companies fly a variety of private charter aircraft and jets, from charter luxury Gulfstream's down to economical piston twins for small groups and individuals.
- Get aroundThere are numerous car rental offices on the Strip making it very easy to rent a car from your hotel for a day trip.
- Go nextThere are boundless opportunities for hiking, camping, rock climbing, mountain biking, skiing, 4x4 trails, watersports, dark sky gazing, etc.
- Go nextGrand Canyon (southeast, 4 hours by car via the Hoover Dam): it's quite easy to make a day trip from Vegas to Grand Canyon as there are a lot of tour companies advertising their services at almost every corner on the Strip.
- Go nextThere are also helicopter tours which are more expensive.
From Wikivoyage: Las Vegas, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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