Are You Fremont Street Las Vegas Experienced?
What's free on Fremont Street Las Vegas? One of the biggest freebie draws in Sin City is the Fremont Street Experience Las Vegas – an audio/visual geek's ultimate dream, featuring a Viva Vision canopy light show. This canopy stretches about 500 yards long, features over 12 million LED lights and over 500,000 watts of stereo sound, making it one of the most interesting, free displays in Vegas. The Fremont Street music video show in Viva Vision starts every hour on the hour, from dusk until midnight, and lasts about seven minutes. During the day you'll be able to catch street performers and artists plying their trades, or the occasional special event. The stages on First or Third Streets provide venues for a variety of bands. You'll also be able to do a little shopping at the many kiosks and souvenir shops or play the loose slots in the hopes of winning big! All of the entertainment on Fremont Street Las Vegas is free of charge and open to all ages, including the Fremont Street Experience Las Vegas Viva Vision show. How is the map of Las Vegas Fremont Street laid out?Fremont Street roughly runs in an east-west direction, and intersects with Las Vegas Boulevard, or The Strip. You'll be able to drive west on Fremont until you hit Las Vegas Boulevard, which is where the pedestrian walkway of the Fremont Street Experience Las Vegas begins. The intersection of The Strip and Fremont Street is near a Parking Plaza (which holds over 1400 vehicles) and marks the location for Neonopolis, an open-air restaurant, shop and entertainment mega structure with a 14 screen movie theater. Neonopolis hosts the Poker Dome Challenge.The Viva Vision canopy roughly covers five blocks of the pedestrian walkway from Las Vegas Boulevard, and provides a good place to cool off during Nevada summers. First, because it's covered, and second, because of the misters installed in the canopy. 
Proceeding west along Fremont Street Las Vegas pedestrian mall, you'll see The Fitz, or Fitzgeralds Casino Las Vegas on the left, followed by the Four Queens Hotel & Casino, also on the left. (The Four Queens is the only casino hotel downtown that hosts a Tix4Tonight kiosk – a great place to pick up half price Vegas show tickets and dining discounts.) Across from the Four Queens you'll spot the Fremont Hotel & Casino. Continuing west, you'll run across the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino (you should take a peek at the swimming tank with three story water slide through a shark habitat, or the largest displayed golden nugget in the world) just before you hit First Street. Binions Gambling Hall and Hotel dominates the north side of the pedestrian mall on Fremont Street. Just before approaching North Main Street, you'll find the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino to the left, and the Vegas Club Hotel & Casino to the right. Cross North Main to visit Plaza Hotel & Casino, and complete the map of Las Vegas Fremont Street pedestrian walkway. Fremont Street Las Vegas FirstsHistorically, Freemont Street is associated with many firsts. The Overland Park Hotel opened in 1905 on Fremont Street (now known as the Las Vegas Club since 1931) and the Golden Gate opened originally as the Hotel Nevada in 1906. The following year, Hotel Nevada saw the installation of Las Vegas' first telephone.The first Fremont Street Experience Las Vegas was very low tech, and culminated in a parade with a “street dance” during a Fourth of July celebration in 1919. The event was held to welcome home American service men from World War I. Fremont Street Las Vegas, temporarily known as “Glitter Gulch” to locals, was first paved in 1925 and saw Vegas' first stop light in 1931. The Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) opened an office in Sin City in 1933, which officially started, and continues to put, the glitter in the gulch. You can now visit the Neon Museum's outdoor gallery at the Fremont Street Experience Las Vegas. This self-guided tour begins in front of Neonopolis at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Fremont Street, and continues to the Third Street cul-de-sac. Just continue walking west Fremont Street Las Vegas from The Strip to see classic Vegas neon art.
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