— — a desert that decided to glow.
“Four and a quarter miles of South Las Vegas Boulevard, running through unincorporated Paradise, Nevada. The Strip is not Las Vegas proper; it is the resort corridor that grew south of the old city, casino by casino, from the 1940s on. Bellagio's fountains run on the half hour. The neon is brighter from the air than from the sidewalk. — from the studio
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The Las Vegas Strip is a 4.2-mile stretch of South Las Vegas Boulevard running through the unincorporated township of Paradise in Clark County, Nevada. It sits at roughly 2,000 feet above sea level in the Mojave Desert, ringed by the Spring Mountains to the west and the Sheep Range to the north. The corridor's first resort, the El Rancho Vegas, opened in 1941; the modern era began with the Flamingo in 1946. The Strip is not legally part of the City of Las Vegas, which lies several miles north.
The Strip has long been one of the brightest places on earth, and astronauts have photographed it from the International Space Station as a single white blaze across the dark Mojave. The Luxor's sky beam, projected from the apex of the 365-foot pyramid since 1993, is rated at roughly 42.3 billion candela. The 366-foot Sphere at the Venetian, opened in 2023, wraps over a million LED pucks across its exterior. The desert sky above is still dark enough to read constellations from a hotel-room window.
The Strip runs from Mandalay Bay at the south end to the Sahara at the north, with the famous "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign sitting on the median just south of Mandalay Bay since 1959. The Bellagio fountains, installed in 1998 across an 8.5-acre lake, run every 30 minutes during the day and every 15 minutes after dark, set to a rotating repertoire of music. Harry Reid International Airport sits less than a mile east of the Strip; the monorail covers the corridor end-to-end in about 15 minutes.