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.
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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.
In true Vegas style, there was no shortage of colorful characters on the Strip and in downtown Las Vegas as 2019 came to an end.
Revelers packed the Las Vegas Strip to usher out 2019 and ring in 2020 on New Year’s Eve.
As revelers are set to ring in 2020 on the Las Vegas Strip, road closures will occur in surrounding areas in order to keep the expected 330,000 people safe.
Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill announced Monday that data center operator Switch would host law enforcement this year.
America’s Party 2020, which also coincides with the extravaganza’s 20th anniversary, has a theme of “The Big 20.”