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A nice stroll from downtown along Riverside Drive, Idlewild Park features Reno's Municipal Rose Garden, as well as playgrounds, exercise equipment, a skate park, a swimming pool and various walking trails. On Friday evenings in the summer there are dozens of food trucks. Located on the south bank of the Truckee River.
Idlewild Park is a large, 49 acre community park close to downtown Reno, Nevada on the Truckee River. It includes a rose garden, duck ponds, two children's parks, a pool and a skate park. It holds the Reno Earth Day celebration every year and hosts the Reno Street Food food truck event through the summer months. It is also home to the historic California Building on Cowan Drive.
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This area of small shops and restaurants is a short walk from the downtown casino core and provides a pleasant setting for a meal.
Closed through summer 2026. Along the Truckee River just a few blocks from the casino core, Wingfield Park features an amphitheater with regular performances during the summer months, a kayak park open year round, and many pleasant spots to sit and watch the world go by any day of the week, at pretty much any time of the day. Home of annual events the Reno River Festival, held for three days in early June, and the Artown Festival, July 1–31.
The Nevada Museum of Art building was designed by Will Bruder and opened in 2003. It plays host to national and international touring exhibits in addition to smaller exhibits of regional significance. It is the only accredited art museum in Nevada. .
This gym is part of the Whitney Peak hotel, but is open to anyone and is the only one in downtown. Basecamp has a small fitness center, 7,000 square feet of bouldering walls inside, and top rope walls on the outside of the building. Two of these top rope routes actually go up the whole side of the Whitney Peak building, making it the Guinness Book of World Records "World's Tallest Artificial Climbing Wall" at 164 feet.
The Eldorado is a pink neon masterpiece featuring a variety of dining options including the Brew Brothers brewpub (with live music on Friday and Saturday nights), a steakhouse, a sushi bar, La Strada Italian Restaurant, and more.
This hotel/casino was completed in 1995 and is the tallest building in Reno. It includes a cheesy "mint press" "churning out" souvenir coins as well as numerous dining options including several lounges, a steakhouse, coffeeshop, rum bar with dueling pianos, and more. Other features include a concert venue with frequent shows and a comedy club open Thursday through Sunday.