» City Limits house party
September/October 2010
The defining vision for the Freight House District entails creating a little something for everyone. Long-term goals include building synergy between the Freight House District and downtown Reno by providing new entertainment choices with each passing block.
» Wide Open thunderbird lodge
September/October 2010
Imagine owning 27 miles of Lake Tahoe’s beautiful shoreline encompassing more than 40,000 acres. Sound impossible? Not if your name was George Whittell Jr., the former owner and resident of Thunderbird Lodge, now an intriguing Nevada tourist attraction.
» Wide Open mackay mansion reborn
September/October 2010
A tour of The Mackay Mansion Museum reveals many nuggets of Virginia City history. Perhaps the most fascinating is learning of a system of underground tunnels that once led from John Mackay’s home to a number of businesses in town. After a four-year hiatus, the museum reopened for tours on May 1.
» Tour Around Nevada boulder city
September/October 2010
Since it was established in the early 1930s to house workers who were building Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam), Boulder City has existed in a self-imposed time warp, a small crystal of tradition and propriety in the loose sands of the Mojave Desert. The contract to build Hoover Dam meant that Ragtown, a dusty tent city perched on a hill overlooking the Colorado River, would become a utopia of brick buildings, parks, and schools.
» Cravings the slanted porch
September/October 2010
An unfortunate side effect of my culinary travels is that a restaurant rarely surprises me anymore. Enter The Slanted Porch in Fallon, an environmentally conscious eatery that seems as if it were plucked out of a trendy urban neighborhood and dropped into charming, laid-back rural Nevada.
» History california trail tale
September/October 2010
In 1896, my great-great-great uncle, Oliver Goldsmith, published Overland in Forty-Nine, his recollections of traveling the California Trail, and gave hardbound copies to his family and friends. It is a remarkable account and tells of the hardships endured by equally remarkable people.
» Events Spotlight going the distance
September/October 2010
Nevada is home to nearly a dozen marathons that offer something for every runner. Take the Lake Tahoe Marathon, September 26, perhaps the most strikingly beautiful race in the country.
» Web Extras the bony express
September/October 2010
Few Nevadans can brag that they have carried mail for the Pony Express. My friend and I entered that prestigious group, 150 years later.
» Web Extras lunar crater
September/October 2010
Lunar Crater Volcanic Field, a short drive south of U.S. Highway 6, is a Nevada oddity. Contrary to its name, Lunar Crater is not the result of a meteor impact. The three-quarter-mile wide, 400-foot-deep crater is the remnant of an ancient, extinct volcano.
» Web Extras nevadan defined
September/October 2010
Most people can easily expel a laundry list of reasons of why they’re proud to be an American. But what about something more intimate and stately? Defining “Nevadan” is not your standard black-and-white issue.
» Web Extras borax’s beginnings
September/October 2010
Now part of The Dial Corporation, A Henkel Company, 20 Mule Team Borax was born in the Furnace Creek area of what became Death Valley National Park (the park’s eastern tip lies in Nevada). Before borax was found there in 1881, the U.S. imported the mineral compound from Asia.
» Best of Nevada best of nevada 2010
July/August 2010
If Nevada Magazine were to choose the Silver State’s “bests,” it would be mission impossible. There are just too many outstanding candidates. That’s why we leave the tough decisions to our readers.
» Feature saving nevada’s lakes
July/August 2010
Nevada’s four major lakes—Mead, Pyramid, Tahoe, and Walker—face serious challenges. If future generations are to appreciate them as so many have before, we must address these challenges and come to acceptable solutions—before it’s too late.
» City Limits touring nevada
July/August 2010
I’ve never flown in a helicopter. I’ve never seen Hoover Dam. And I’ve never gazed upon Lake Mead. It was the perfect recipe for a tour, and one that tour companies cherish—a chance to give a wide-eyed tourist a new experience and, at the same time, educate him about the surrounding area.
» Wide Open wild nevada
July/August 2010
Of the nine National Wildlife Refuges in Nevada, the Desert National Wildlife Refuge in Southern Nevada and the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in extreme northwestern Nevada are the largest. Visits to either offer a wealth of land to explore.
» Tour Around Nevada ely
July/August 2010
One of Nevada’s oldest towns, Ely was established in 1870. It was designated the White Pine County seat in 1887 and served surrounding mining camps such as Cherry Creek and Osceola. In the early 1900s, copper deposits led to a population boom in Ely as workers vacated the floundering gold mines of the region. This led to the construction of the Nevada Northern Railway, which connected Ely’s copper mines to the Southern Pacific Railroad.
» Cravings decidedly dixie
July/August 2010
It’s easy to imagine that whomever first said “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” was speaking of soul food. Collard greens, crawfish, fried catfish and chicken, peach cobbler, and smoky slow-cooked meats epitomize this distinctly American cuisine.
» History st. thomas
July/August 2010
A prolonged drought in the Southwest has communities contemplating a dry future and the potential consequences. But for one Nevada town it wasn’t the lack of water, but the opposite, which caused it to disappear more than 70 years ago. Today, Lake Mead has receded to the point that visitors now have an opportunity to see a town that was once submerged.
» Events Spotlight burn baby burn
July/August 2010
When I think about Burning Man the first memory that comes to mind is surprisingly short and not even my own. Last year one of my friends went a little overboard and wound up passing out in the middle of the playa one night. He awoke the following morning to find that someone had covered him with a blanket.
» Shows Spotlight disappearing act
July/August 2010
As I sit in the Lance Burton Theatre inside the Monte Carlo, watching what will be one of the Las Vegas entertainer’s final 75 performances, I fondly remember 20 years ago when I first watched this promising magician.
