Recreational Opportunities

• ATV Club
  The Dunes and Trails ATV Club has monthly meetings at the Tap House and also features two rides each month. One is local (within 1.5 hours of Las Vegas), and another involves an overnight stay in Utah, Arizona, or California. The club posts photos and gen
• Breaking News in the Golf World
  Golf Magazine has named the Cascata course near Boulder City (owned by Caesars Entertainment) #19 among the top 45 U.S. courses built since 1959. This exclusive par-72 course meanders through desert terrain offset by lush fairways. It’s the highest ranked
• Clothing Optional Destinations
  Directions and information for finding and enjoying a nude beach at Lake Mead or a soak at Tecopa Hotsprings.
• Delights Hot Springs
  This resort, which boasts “therapeutic natural artesian hot spring mineral water,” is located in Tecopa, California, near Death Valley.
• Fly Fishing near Las Vegas
  Lessons are offered through UNLV and taught at Lake Las Vegas. The company that teaches the lessons also provides expert fishing guides for southern Utah and southern Nevada. (2/2/06)
• Flyaway Indoor Skydiving
  “Fly” on a column of air 12 feet in diameter. Speeds up to 120 mph are created by an airplane propeller.
• Golf Course Locator Map
  Guide to 51 golf courses in Las Vegas. Seven are public, and the other 44 are private.
• Grand Canyon River Guides
  This non-profit organization offers lots of good online leads to information about the Colorado River and how to explore it by raft or kayak
• Hard Work (But Fun) On Holiday
  Wilderness Volunteers organizes one-week hiking/work trips in some of the most gorgeous places in the country. The purpose is to provide semi-skilled labor to the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, an
• Hiking & Mountain Climbing
  The Las Vegas Mountaineers Club sponsors monthly trips featuring rock climbing, hiking, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing in the local mountains surrounding Las Vegas. Training programs at all levels from beginning to advanced are also available.
• Las Vegas Motor Speedway
  Upcoming races, special events and information about travel packages
• Las Vegas Primm 300
  300-mile off-road race near Primm, Nevada (September 10-12, 2004)
• Mountain Biking Adventures
  The Blue Diamond Bike Outpost is a local road- and mountain-bike outfitter that offers guided tours and high-end (e.g. Cannondale and TREK) bike rentals. Blue Diamond is a small community southeast of Las Vegas at the gateway to the Red Rock Canyon and Bl
• Nevada Magazine
  This excellent publication has been sharing little-known destinations with Nevada residents and visitors for over sixty years. Publisher Richard Moreno is the author of two outstanding books, Endless Nevada and Roadside History of Nevada.
• Professional Baseball
  The Las Vegas 51s are associated with the Los Angeles Dodgers. They play at Cashman Field.
• Professional Hockey
  Las Vegas’ home team is the Las Vegas Wranglers. They play at the Orleans Arena.
• Soaring Adventures
  Offer rides, soaring instruction, and rentals. (And, they write, “We have a new winch for European style launching — 0 to 60 in three seconds!”) (1/9/07)
• Southern Nevada Paddling Club
  This is a local kayaking club that organizes camping and paddling trips, training classes, and provides support for local triathlons. (N.B. Click on the ?trip maps? link for a remarkably detailed map of Lake Mead.)
• Tandem Skydiving
  A great way to see if you like to jump out of planes! Based in Boulder City, Nevada, SkyDive Las Vegas has been in business for over twelve years and offers special discounts for first-timers.
• The Las Vegas Soaring Association
  is a non-profit sport gliding club based at the Jean Airport, half an hour south of Las Vegas on Interstate 15. Southern Nevada offers some of the best year-round soaring conditions in the U.S. Two companies, The Soaring Center (tel. 702-874-1010)
• Unreal Vegas
  Check out Jonathan Foerstel’ ever-expanding gallery of quirky places all over the Vegas valley.
• XPlex Racing Park
  This is a state-of-the-art professional kart racing track located in Sloan (a few miles south of the Strip). These super-duper go-karts can reach speeds up to 120 mph and ride only 3 inches above the ground. Not for the faint of heart, but if you want som
• Zion Canyon Field Institute
  This non-profit group sponsors day trips focusing on nature photography, archaeology, geology, and natural history. All of the trips include hiking in and around Zion National Park, Cedar Breaks, and Pipe Springs National Monuments.