How to Get Around The Strip By Car
If you’re visiting Vegas and have a car, you need to know that there’s virtually no reason whatsoever why you should ever need to drive on Las Vegas Boulevard. It’s likely to be jam packed any night of the week – on weekends, it’s sure to be – and there are a few parallel roads that will get you where you need to go in a fraction of the time it’ll take you to travel the four miles of the Strip itself.
Just print out a map of the Strip and orient yourself to these three routes: Industrial Road, Koval Lane and Paradise Road. That first one runs more or less parallel to the Strip on the west side (the same side as the Mirage, Caesars, Bellagio and Mandalay Bay), and the second two run roughly parallel to the Strip on the east side (that’d be the same side as MGM Grand, Venetian and Wynn).
Koval Lane should be your route of choice if you’re traveling anywhere from the Venetian at the north end to Mandalay Bay at the south. Note that once it crosses Tropicana Avenue heading south, it makes a dramatic curve to the right and turns into Hacienda Avenue before dumping you off right between Mandalay Bay and the Luxor, where you have your pick of either the Mandalay Place parking valet area to the right (good choice and never a wait for your car) or THEhotel/Mandalay Bay hotel valets and parking garage on your left.
Industrial Road is ideal for getting to most hotels on the west side of the Strip between Sahara Avenue and Mandalay Bay. Head west from the Strip at Sahara and take the little right-hand exit ramp toward the Crazy Horse Too strip club and you’ll hit the light at Industrial. Make a left and you’ll be heading south.
Note that when you get to the underpass for Interstate 15, you’ll need to veer left and continue south on Frank Sinatra Drive. If you’re heading north from Mandalay Bay, the rear exit from the parking garage will deposit you on Frank Sinatra Drive and you can simply reverse the course above.
Barring rush hour during a major convention, Paradise Road is a good choice for traversing the Strip between Harmon Avenue and Sahara Avenue. (Note that traffic on Paradise is one-way headed south, toward McCarran International Airport, beginning at Harmon.) However, even if you’re zipping along effortlessly on Paradise, you might run into a major traffic backup once you turn toward the Strip on Flamingo or Tropicana, so just be forewarned.
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