Free Parking In Las Vegas Is Still Available At These Hotel Casinos

Free parking in Las Vegas? It used to be standard. No one paid for parking in Las Vegas, because they were paying to stay, and play - lose money - at the casino/hotel they stayed at. Not anymore.

Free parking in Las Vegas now is about as difficult to come by as a winning a Megabucks jackpot. But there is still some out there.

In 2023 there was a handful of Las Vegas Strip properties that still had free parking. Those included the Venetian, The Palazzo, and The Stratosphere. But now it's 2024, and that has ended ended at those properties.

It now costs up to $15 per day to park at The Strat and up to $18 per day to park at Venetian and Palazzo. And on any given day in Las Vegas, those prices can fluctuate. Is there an event? A convention? If so. the price is going up.

And of course, parking at other big Las Vegas properties can run anywhere from $20 to $50+. And you really never know what it will be, until you get there. F1, EDC, CES - any big event, game, or convention, can jack that parking price up substantially.

One of the few remaining Strip hotels with free parking was the Tropicana Of course, that is now gone, to make way for a baseball stadium for the Oakland Athletics.

A few places on and off the Las Vegas Strip don't charge for parking. Some hotels offer free parking as perk of their rewards programs. But, you'll definitely have to spend your way up to that level.

Here is where you can absolutely park for FREE in Las Vegas:

So, see - there are still some Las Vegas resorts offering free parking. Honestly, it's a nice perk, at some very nice places. Take it!

Las Vegas street names - where did they come from, and why?

Las Vegas is a place of extremes. We probably have the brightest artificial light in the known universe shining from the Luxor pyramid every night - to the extent that pilots can't fly directly over it for fear of piercing a retina. We have the tallest building between Chicago and the west coast., with the Stratosphere Tower. We have more hotel rooms per capita than - well, probably anywhere. More shows, more casinos, more restaurants in a three mile stretch of road on the strip, than most cities have in a lifetime.

We have to eventually run out of street names, right? Which is not good, because street names help you get you where you're going.

Naming streets in Las Vegas was easy - at first. Early downtown Las Vegas named streets going one direction after Nevada pioneers like Clark, Fremont and Carson. The cross streets got numbers, starting with First Street, which was just one block east of Main Street. Main Street was next to the railroad on the spot where the city began. In the original North Las Vegas the streets were mostly named after people, - simple enough.

Henderson was founded as a company town as a part of the war effort during World War Two.

The street names include Basic, which is the name of the company where the water for Basic Industries flows (now underground,) and a whole lot of mineral names: Lead, Silver, and Perlite. State names, ocean names (Atlantic and Pacific) and to top it off, Army, Navy, Major and Minor.

During an early optimistic period what is now the industrial development west of the Strip used names of stars, like Polaris, Procyon, Regulus, Capella, Sirius, Rigel, Pollux, and Aldebaran. Not bad.

Then there are the celebrity streets. You know, Joe W. Brown Drive, Frank Sinatra Drive, Dean Martin Drive, Wynn Road, Elvis Presley Street, and many that are actually minor streets but still are named after famous Las Vegas people.

There's still a lot of building going on in Las Vegas - what are YOUR suggestions for road names?

And here are some weird street names from other cities in the state of Nevada

-Carla Rea

Goa Way. Get it - Go A-way.   Gardnerville is an unincorporated town in Douglas County, (Northern) Nevada, adjacent to the county seat of Minden. The population was 6,211 at the time of the 2020 Census. U.S. Route 395 runs through the center of Gardnerville. State Route 207, known as Kingsbury Grade, connects Gardnerville to Stateline and U.S. Route 50.

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Hell's Bells Road.  Carson City is the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,639, making it the sixth largest city in Nevada.

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Wegotta Way - perhaps to go along with the street in Gardnerville.

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I know a lot of cities have this street, but still - you gotta love it! Some of us even stole that street sign in the city we grew up in. (I plead the fifth)

Break-A-Heart Road. Just in time for Valentine's Day. Silver Springs is a census-designated place in Lyon County, Nevada, at the intersection of US 50 and US 95A. The population was 5,296 at the 2010 census. Lahontan Reservoir, Lahontan State Recreation Area and historic Fort Churchill State Historic Park are all located nearby. If you ever get a chance to go to Lahontan, do it - it's a lot of fun!

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Windy Butte Way. It's childish - but you know you laughed, Beavis.

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Over the hump, in Pahrump, is an ode to Frank Sinatra!

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