Driving in and out of Vegas

Driving place to place in town in Vegas is not recommended but it is useful to know your way around by car if you will be driving in and out on side trips. Its not that hard, in general you have the strip running north south, running across the strip are the streets named for The Big Casinos that were originally on the strip and you use those street names to know where you get on and off the 2 or three major highways you will use for your trips. Getting to know the order of the side streets relative to where you are staying will get you home at the right exit or let you know if you missed it and have to turn around.

The North side of Vegas in the Freemont Street Experience area is a little different, the two streets you exit the highway are the Las Vegas blvd itself or Boulder Highway which becomes Freemont ST as you go north. Boulder highway crosses 515 more than once exit 70 north of flamingo rd is the exit you want.

Streets with exits to know from north to south
For the Fremont Street area

• Las Vegas BLVD (north of Freemont ST)
• Boulder Highway (its best exit 70 off I-515 is north of flamingo RD)

For The Strip with Casinos at that exit

• Sahara Ave = Sahara, Stratosphere
• Desert Inn RD = Wynn, New Frontier, Star Dust, Riviera, Circus Circuis, Las Vegas Hilton
• Flamingo RD = Planet Hollywood Bally’s Bellagio Paris Flamingo Caesar’s Imperial palace Harrah’s Venetian, Mirage, Treasure Island
• Tropicana Ave = Mandalay bay, Luxor, Excalibur, Tropicana, NY NY, MGM Grand, Monte Carlo

One other street to note Maryland Parkway is a city street that runs parallel to the strip on the east side. Near the north side I found regular price stores and fast food. When driving out of town it was a good place to pick up things I needed like sun block and a bathing suit.