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When it opened in 1947, the 12-story Mapes Hotel was the tallest building in Nevada until the 1956 opening of the Fremont Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. [1] Owned by the Mapes family, the hotel quickly became, for most of the 1950s and 1960s, the premier hotel in Reno.
Reno Experience District (or RED), originally Park Lane Centre and later Park Lane Mall, is a mixed-use entertainment, retail, and housing complex in Reno, Nevada, United States, located at the southeast corner of South Virginia Street and Plumb Lane, just west of the Reno–Tahoe International Airport and south of downtown Reno.
Skyline of Reno, Nevada. Looking North towards downtown from Audrey Harris Park on Lakeside Drive. Reno is only 14 miles over the California border. The Nevada Gaming Commission groups it as one gaming region, with a total of five casinos earning more than $72 million in the last fiscal year. In other reports the Reno region is consolidated ...
State Route 431 (SR 431), commonly known as the Mount Rose Highway, is a 24.413-mile-long (39.289 km) highway in Washoe County, Nevada, that connects Incline Village at Lake Tahoe with Reno. The highway, a Nevada Scenic Byway , takes its name from Mount Rose , which lies just off the highway.
Truckee Meadows has been used interchangeably with the Reno metropolitan area, [4] However, the metro area's official definition includes all of Washoe County and Storey County. [5] Several Reno suburbs are located in separate valleys, including Lemmon Valley, Golden Valley, Sun Valley, Nevada, Cold Springs valley and Washoe Valley.
Upon entering Reno, the route is designated, since 1998, as the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway. The freeway heads north to the I-80 interchange near Downtown Reno and I-580 ends here. Shortly afterward, US 395 turns northwest to serve the northern valleys of the Reno area before crossing back to California at the unincorporated Nevada community ...
) is a north–south state highway in Reno, Nevada. The highway follows Virginia Street , the primary north–south arterial street of the area. US 395 is also designated as State Route 430 ( SR 430 ) from its intersection with SR 659 (McCarran Boulevard) to its northern terminus at US 395.
This is one of the oldest highways in Nevada. The route was first part of the lesser used Sonora Pass branch of the California Trail. [2] The route appeared as a highway on maps since at least as far back as 1919. [3] The highway was first numbered as a portion of State Route 3, a designation in use by 1929.