Las Vegas Strip Vegas Boulevard South Las Vegas Nevada United States North America
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The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately 4 2 mile 6 8 km stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County Nevada Unknown to many travelers outside of Nevada The Strip is not located within the City of Las Vegas but it passes through the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester which are south of the Las Vegas city limits Most of the Strip has been designated an All American Road and has a unique distinction of being a scenic route during nighttime Many of the largest hotel casino and resort properties in the world are located on the Las Vegas Strip Fifteen of the worlds 25 largest hotels by room count are on the Strip with a total of over 62000 rooms One of the most visible aspects of Las Vegas cityscape is its use of dramatic architecture The modernization of hotels casinos restaurants and residential high rises on the Strip has established the city as one of the most popular destinations for tourists Historically the casinos that were not in Downtown Las Vegas along Fremont Street were restricted to outside of the city limits on Las Vegas Boulevard In 1959 the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign was constructed exactly 4 5 miles 7 2 km outside of the city limits The sign is today about 0 4 miles 0 64 km south of the southernmost entrance to Mandalay Bay the southernmost casino In the strictest sense the Strip refers only to the stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard that is roughly between Sahara Avenue and Russell Road a distance of 4 2 miles 6 8 km However the term is often used to refer not only to the road but also to the various casinos and resorts that line the road and even to properties which are not on the road but in proximity Phrases such as Strip Area Resort Corridor or Resort District are sometimes used to indicate a larger geographical area including properties 1 mile 1 6 km or more away from Las Vegas Boulevard such as the Hard Rock Hotel another similar sign is in the median at the north end of the Strip near the intersection of East St Louis and South Main Streets Newer resorts such as South Point and the M Resort are on Las Vegas Boulevard South as distant as 8 miles south of the Welcome to Las Vegas sign Marketing for these casinos usually states that they are on southern Las Vegas Boulevard and not Strip properties However this area is frequently referred to as the South Strip The first casino to be built on Highway 91 was the Pair o Dice Club in 1931 but the first on what is currently the Strip was the El Rancho Vegas opening on April 3 1941 with 63 rooms That casino stood for almost 20 years before being destroyed by a fire in 1960 Its success spawned a second hotel on what would become the Strip the Hotel Last Frontier in 1942 Organized crime figures such as New Yorks Bugsy Siegel took interest in the growing gaming center leading to other resorts such as the Flamingo which opened in 1946 and the Desert Inn which opened in 1950 The funding for many projects was provided through the American National Insurance Company which was based in the then notorious gambling empire of Galveston Texas
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Published : Apr 01, 2013
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