A portion of Las Vegas Boulevard closed to traffic Thursday evening to allow revelers to ring in 2021.
New Year’s Eve Las Vegas
Tourists and locals braved a raging pandemic Thursday night to end a year of unimaginable crisis with a hopeful eye toward a fresh start and descended on Las Vegas to celebrate the beginning of 2021.
To end 2020, New Year’s Eve features fireworks in downtown Las Vegas with other parties planned around the valley.
Despite the cancellation of the annual New Year’s Eve fireworks show on the Las Vegas Strip, a portion of the boulevard and Interstate 15 on and off ramps will shut to traffic to ring in 2021.
With the Strip’s annual midnight fireworks show canceled, fewer roadways will be closed to vehicular and fewer officers will be required to patrol them, Las Vegas police said.
Las Vegas room rates have trended well below average this year, but prices listed for New Year’s Eve are skyrocketing.