Reno Arch
LandmarkThe Reno Arch is the iconic gateway to downtown spanning Virginia Street at Commercial Row and bearing the slogan The Biggest Little City in the World, awarded in a 1929 slogan contest. The original arch went up in 1926 for the 1927 Nevada Transcontinental Highways Exposition marking completion of the Lincoln and Victory Highways, and the current neon arch was installed on August 8, 1987. The arch anchors the historic downtown casino corridor and serves as the city's most photographed landmark.
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National Automobile Museum
CulturalThe National Automobile Museum in downtown Reno opened on November 5, 1989 and displays roughly 225 vehicles drawn from the original Bill Harrah Automobile Collection, including the 1907 Thomas Flyer New York-to-Paris race winner, presidential limousines, and one of the most significant historic-automobile collections in the United States. The museum is a major cultural anchor downtown alongside the Truckee River riverwalk and the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.
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Nevada Museum of Art
CulturalThe Nevada Museum of Art is the only accredited art museum in the state, occupying a Will Bruder-designed building on Liberty Street in downtown Reno that opened in 2003 at 70,000 square feet and reached roughly 120,000 square feet when the 50,000-square-foot Charles and Stacie Mathewson Education + Research Center opened on August 22, 2025. The museum hosts the Institute for Art + Environment, formerly the Center for Art + Environment, an internationally recognized research center on creative interactions between people and their environments.
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Truckee River Whitewater Park
NaturalThe Truckee River Whitewater Park is a 0.5-mile in-river whitewater course running through downtown Reno along Wingfield Park, completed in 2004 with eleven engineered drop-pool features for kayaking, river-surfing, and rafting. The park hosts the Reno River Festival and supports a year-round outdoor-recreation cluster along the Truckee River riverwalk between Idlewild Park and the Reno Arch.
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