Sighteeing and Tours - Las Vegas Strip and Surrounding Areas
Outstanding Tours of Las Vegas and Its Famous Landmarks
Las Vegas has a multitude of sightseeing tours that provide the best views and guides which can be experienced by helicopter, airplane, hot air balloon, bus and other ground transportation. What better way to get the best view of the Las Vegas Strip (Las Vegas Boulevard) and historic Downtown Las Vegas than by helicopter tour with your choice of day or night viewing high above the world-famous landmarks. The aerial narrated excursion will fly over the most recognizable landmarks of the Vegas skyline including the Luxor Pyramid, New York New York, Bellagio Fountains, Eiffel Tower (Paris Las Vegas), Venetian Clock Tower, The Strat and the bright lights of Fremont Street Downtown. If staying on terra firma is more desirable, a Las Vegas Big Bus Tour is a perfect way to customize your experience in an open-top double decker bus with live guides that offer flexible hop-on, hop-off packages for route, number of days and day or night tours. Try a personalized and private tour of the sights in an open-air Pink Jeep or explore all that Vegas has to offer like a celebrity in the ultimate luxury of a stretch limousine and your own professional photographer to capture the entire once of a lifetime experience. The adventurous looking for exploring in a little more unconventional manner can ride a trike motorcycle, scooter or scooter car to take it all in with the wind blowing through your hair. Of course, there is always the good old fashion self-guided tour in which you are totally immersed in all that Vegas has to offer at your own pace and with the experiences of your choice.
Many visitors are unaware that there are so many wonderful sights just outside of the bright lights of the Strip and Fremont Street. Las Vegas has some of the most beautiful and dramatic scenery all within a few hour radius. Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area is picturesque landscape with world class rock climbing and hiking where desert meets the mountains, with stunning red and white rock formations as the focal point of the transition. All the same modes of transportation available to see the bright lights of the strip are at your beckon take in the bright vibrant colors of the natural landscape. Ride a trike motorcycle, scooter, scooter car, in a Pink Jeep or tour by helicopter while enjoying the splendor of Redrock in the open desert air. Wander and traverse the desert hills and mountains on the trails through rocks, washes and canyons on hikes for all ability levels. Experience Redrock Canyon scenery and wildlife like a cowboy in the old west on a sunset horseback ride and campfire barbeque experience. With the many options available to be immersed in the majestic landscape and vegetation of Redrock Canyon, explorers will quickly see why the canyon is a local favorite.
Valley of Fire State Park is lesser known than Red Rock, but it’s 40,00 acres of flaming red Aztec sandstone, contrasting gray and tan limestone, ancient, petrified trees and petroglyphs dating back more than 2,000 years, it is no wonder why this hidden outdoor gem is world-renowned. Lake Mead National Recreation Area is a man-made reservoir on the Colorado River created by Hoover Dam. The lake between Nevada and Arizona provides for recreational activities such as hiking, biking, boating, jet skiing, kayaking and camping. Tours of Lake Mead and Hoover Dam can be taken by helicopter, ATV, boat, kayak, mountain bike and private tour. For an inside look at the dam which provides electricity and water to Nevada, Arizona and California; take the Powerplant Tour deep inside the concrete walls to see turbines, inspection and original tunnels and ride the original elevator to the top of the structure in the walls of the Black Canyon. Although not as massive, Seven Magic Mountains is an impressive, colorful, man-made landmark rising from the desert floor in the Ivanpah Valley created by internationally renowned Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone. This large art display standing more than 30 feet high in the stark desert landscape includes seven towers created from colorful painted boulders that are unique artistic experience in the backdrop of a remote location.
iTraveler Las Vegas Local Favorite: Fremont Street and East Fremont Street
iTraveler Las Vegas Local Outdoor Favorites: Redrock, Mt. Charleston and Lee Canyo