Fremont Street Experience

The Fremont Street Experience is the covered pedestrian mall in downtown Las Vegas, five blocks under a canopy that runs light shows on the hour. This is the old Vegas, from before the Strip took the business south.

Overview

Fremont Street was the original casino row and had emptied out by the 1990s, when the canopy was built to bring people back — it is now a screen 460 metres long that plays overhead while bands are on stage below. The casinos underneath are older, smaller and cheaper than the Strip resorts, with lower table minimums and a much less polished feel, which is the reason to come. The Neon Museum a few minutes north keeps the signs the demolished casinos left behind.

Highlights

Come after dark; the canopy shows need it and the street is dull by day. The Golden Gate and the Golden Nugget are the two casinos worth walking through. It is a fifteen-minute rideshare from the Strip and the two are not walkable from each other.

Fremont Street Experience

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