For trails beyond Nevada, check out Derek Dellinger’s “America’s Best Day Hikes: Spectacular Single-Day Hikes Across the States” (The Countryman Press, $29.95).
Broken down by regions, the hardcover book features photography, maps and detailed information on hikes with stunning views.
For additional hikes in the region, check out our Las Vegas Hiking Guide.
Vegas-based community and event series seeks to be an entry point into a more outdoor-centric life.
From Valley of Fire to Boulder City, immerse yourself in few nearby destinations that are perfect for a quick getaway.
In spring, outdoor space becomes the occasion for dining alfresco, especially in Las Vegas, where spring is a fact, not (as elsewhere) a hope.
For anyone interested in exploring the outdoors in Southern Nevada, Jim Boone has created sort of a one-stop shop for all things hiking and bird-watching.
The easy-to-learn activity remains the fastest-growing sport in the U.S. Locally, more and more courts have cropped up to keep up with demand.
Next to being an Avenger, Bradley Daseler has one of the coolest job titles around: Las Vegas’ urban forester.
Las Vegas has produced a major shift in sports: young athletes taking to outdoor pursuits such as skiing, rock climbing and mountain biking.
Take a Polar Express-inspired ride to the North Pole and back
On her first visit to the poker table at a Las Vegas casino, a 21-year-old finds herself holding all the cards.
After a rare reaction to Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, a 20-year-old Henderson woman is relearning to eat, walk and be independent.
Every Las Vegas native, it seems, has a version of the story where they remember Sin City ending at this or that street. Beyond lay the implacable desert.
If you close your eyes and listen, you can almost hear the ghosts. The ghosts of a visionary landowner, a restless outlaw and a murdered man.
Indomitable Las Vegas has defied critics and counterpunched its way to the big time. But with every breakthrough, things get broken.
A UNLV professor considers the present — and possible futures — of artificial intelligence
The chief chocolatier for Las Vegas-based Ethel M Chocolates on holiday flavors and the secrets of the sweet life.
For decades, Las Vegas marketed itself with cowboy mythology. It never really stopped.
In his new book Frontier Fake News: Nevada’s Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters, Richard Moreno digs into the Sagebrush School and the early history of fake news in Nevada.
Chantal Chandler is an artist and writer who grew up near downtown Las Vegas, and she shares some of her childhood experiences in this issue’s “Zine Within a Zine.”
The Super Bowl is a crowning moment for Las Vegas. Here are five local sporting events — from megafights to Golden Knights — that helped pave the city’s way to the big time.
With all due respect to writers, I humbly submit that music can take us further and faster and deeper into the galactic dust of our dreams.
