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Catch a Reno Aces baseball game

Catch a Reno Aces baseball game

Reno's Triple A baseball team, the Aces, play their games in the $50 million Aces Ballpark, located in downtown Reno.

Reno Rodeo

Reno Rodeo

Dubbed the "Wildest, Richest Rodeo in the West," the Reno Rodeo rolls into town June 17-26, 2010, at the Reno-Sparks...

Sparks Hometowne Farmer's Market

Sparks Hometowne Farmer's Market

Victorian Square comes to life every Thursday with vendors and entertainment more »

Sparks Hometowne Farmer's Market

Victorian Square comes to life every Thursday with vendors and entertainment

Catch a Reno Aces baseball game

Reno's Triple A baseball team, the Aces, play their games in the $50 million Aces Ballpark, located in downtown Reno.

Casino pool parties

Dance, drink and relax poolside this summer

Reno Rodeo

Dubbed the "Wildest, Richest Rodeo in the West," the Reno Rodeo rolls into town June 17-26, 2010, at the Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center.

Eurofest at the Sands

Celebrate a wealth of European food, beer and music June 4-6

Great Eldorado BBQ, Brews and Blues Festival

This summer, the best BBQ, Brews & Blues combine to take over North Virginia Street in front of the Eldorado Hotel Casino.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival

The 38th season begins July 9 and features the hilarious "The Complete Works (Abridged)."

Artown

Each July, Artown invites people to leave the beaten path for arts unknown, to join with distinguished artists from down the street, across the country, and around the world for a celebration of cultural diversity and artistic innovation.

Nevada Museum of Art

160 W Liberty St

Reno-Tahoe Open

Recognized by the pros as a favorite stop on the PGA Tour

Tahoe Celebrity Golf Tournament

What famous faces will show up for 2010?

Animal Ark

38-acre wildlife sanctuary just a stone's throw from Reno.

Hot August Nights

Shine your Chevy, detail your Deuce Coupe and hustle your hot rod over to Reno and Sparks' Hot August Nights for a celebration of America's love affair with cars and rock & roll August 1-8, 2009.

Donner Memorial State Park and Donner Lake

Located in the beautiful Sierra Nevada, Donner Memorial State Park offers the summer vacationer opportunities for camping, picnicking, boating, fishing, water-skiing, and hiking.

Burning Man

Once a year, tens of thousands of participants gather to create Black Rock City in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having left no trace whatsoever.

Pyramid Lake

A boaters and fisherman's paradise, Pyramid sits within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation.

Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off

Stephen Ascuaga, executive vice president of marketing at John Ascuaga’s Nugget, said it’s known as the Super Bowl of rib cook-offs. A recent winner, Butch Lupinetti, called it “the Indy 500 and the Olympics all in one.

National Bowling Stadium

Home to national bowling tournaments, the stadium, which opened in 1995, was dubbed the "Taj Mahal of Tenpins" by the L.A. Times.

Great Reno Balloon Race

For more than 25 years, people from all over the world have chosen to spend their September mornings at the Great Reno Balloon Race, taking in the spectacular sights and sounds of this unique event.

Virginia City Camel Races

If you plan on visiting Virginia City the month of September, be prepared to experience one of most hilarious and uncommon races of its kind, Sept. 10-12.

Virginia City - an old west experience

If you're looking for a true old west experience, you could do much worse than a trip to Virginia City, just a half-hour southeast of Reno.

Rafting the Truckee isn't a lazy float down the river

There's more to explore of the Truckee River than the urban section that flows through downtown Reno. The river snakes 140 miles from the northwest side of Lake Tahoe at Tahoe City and empties into Pyramid Lake.

National Automobile Museum

The National Automobile Collection opened in November 1989 in a sleek, modern structure built and designed specifically for the museum. The 105,000-sqaure-foot facility is located along the Truckee River in downtown Reno.

Reno Air Races

Five days of racing. Six classes of aircraft. And speeds topping 500 mph. It all adds up to the 46th annual National Championship Air Races, flying into Reno Stead Field this September.

Soak up history at hot springs to the south of Reno

This hot springs, about 30 miles south of Reno on the northeast side of Carson City, is the spring most similar to a community bathhouse experience and is frequented by locals.

Street Vibrations

Street Vibrations Motorcycle Festival is a celebration of music, metal and motorcycles. Street Vibrations offers tours, live entertainment, parades, ride-in shows, stunt shows and more.

Great Italian Festival

For 29 years, the Eldorado has brought the sights, sounds and tastes of Italy to Reno during the Eldorado Great Italian Festival. From its inception, the Eldorado Hotel Casino has been modeled to fit an authentic Italian, classic European theme.

Slide Back '80s ski day

Break all the rules of ski and normal fashion for a day on the slope that goes back in time to the glorious '80s. You could even earn new gear in the "most fashionable" contest, with the action at noon.

Reno Santa Pub Crawl

The annual event draws thousands of people to downtown Reno to roam from bar to bar dressed as Santas, elves or anything even vaguely holiday-related.

Tahoe Rim Trail

This 165-mile loop was made to be hiked section by section, so don’t complain that the whole shebang will take too long. Pick a section for a dayhike or backpacking trip.

Reno Bighorns

The Reno Bighorns are an NBA Development team that plays at the Reno Events Center.

Valentine's Vampire Bar Crawl

Drown your sorrows and find fun on Valentine's Day with the Vampire Bar Crawl. For the second year in a row, make it a date with a hundreds of creatures of the night and roam downtown Reno on Feb. 13.

Wolf Pack Basketball

The 2009-10 season will be the first for head coach David Carter, a 10-year Nevada assistant coach who replaced Georgia-bound Mark Fox in April.

Northstar at Tahoe Ice Skating Rink

The 9,000 square foot skating rink is in the heart of the Village at Northstar.

Embark on a dog-sled adventure

A family huddles under thick blankets, the sled creaking beneath their weight. The girl points her mitten at the slopes ahead. Eight dogs paw the trail eagerly, their breath hovering in clouds around their dark ears.

Go snowmobiling

My hands were the warmest part of me as I bounded about on a snowmobile on groomed trails between Spooner Summit and Kingsbury Grade earlier this week.

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