The Las Vegas Adventurer

Take your Vegas vacation way off-Strip – and three miles up!
Skydive Las Vegas offers a unique view of southern Nevada — rather, whatever you manage to take in before the jitters take over! At 10,000 feet you’re all but guaranteed to see the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, the Colorado River, Valley of Fire, Red Rock Canyon, and Mt. Charleston.
A free shuttle picks you up on the Strip (you need to call 1-800-875-9348 to find out where) at 8:00am and 12:00 noon and also drops you off when your day is done. You can, of course, save a bit of …read more

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Our forecast this week predicted the chance of snow over the next few days, but as usual, the closer we got, it changed to rain, and now it’s just supposed to be cloudy. While this is disappointing for those of us who actually like and/or miss snow (or even rain), we don’t have to despair!

Mount Charleston is located about half an hour northwest of Las Vegas. It’s a wonderful getaway year-round: in the summer it stays cool and bearable (with some decent campgrounds), and in the winter Las Vegas locals can have a taste of what a real winter …read more

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