Fremont Street Experience

The Fremont Street Experience, in Las Vegas

The Fremont Street Experience is the historic and festive heart of Downtown Las Vegas, a pedestrian street covered with an immense screen of neon and animations. The Las Vegas audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this cradle of the town, formerly nicknamed 'Glitter Gulch', reinvented in the 1990s into an avenue of sound and light shows unique in the world.

The sparkling cradle of Las Vegas

You are in the historic heart of Las Vegas. Well before the Strip, it is here that everything began. In 1905, the first lots were sold; in 1906 opened the first hotel of the town, and in the 1930s, after the legalisation of gambling in Nevada, Fremont Street became the nerve centre of the casino in Las Vegas. The district was then nicknamed Glitter Gulch, literally the sparkling gulch, in reference to the innumerable luminous signs that flashed all night, giving the town its face of capital of neon. In the 1990s, facing the rise of the Strip that drew the crowds towards the south, Downtown reacted by reinventing itself: five blocks of the street were covered with an immense vault, transformed into a gigantic video screen, and the Fremont Street Experience was created. Today, this canopy of more than four hundred metres, bristling with millions of LEDs, broadcasts each night spectacular sound and light shows, free, that plunge the crowd into a deluge of images and music. The street, entirely pedestrian, teems with animations: open-air concerts, street artists, historic casinos, ziplines that fly over the heads and costumed characters. An electric atmosphere guaranteed, especially at nightfall. A mythical street and a capital of neon, the Fremont Street Experience is a fine stop of the discovery of Las Vegas.

What to see

Here you discover the historic heart of Las Vegas, there where the town was born from 1905 and where Fremont Street became the centre of gambling in the 1930s, nicknamed Glitter Gulch for its neon; reinvented in the 1990s, the pedestrian street is covered with a canopy of more than four hundred metres and millions of LEDs that broadcast each night free sound and light shows, amid the casinos, concerts and ziplines. The Fremont Street Experience is the cradle of Las Vegas. It is a fine stop, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The Fremont Street Experience lies in the heart of Downtown Las Vegas, reachable on foot. It is a pedestrian street freely accessible, lined with casinos, bars and stages, particularly lively in the evening during the sound and light shows of the canopy. You walk along it during a stroll in Downtown.

What is the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas?

The historic heart of Las Vegas, there where the town was born from 1905 and where Fremont Street became the centre of gambling in the 1930s, nicknamed Glitter Gulch; reinvented in the 1990s, it is a pedestrian street covered with a canopy of more than four hundred metres and millions of LEDs that broadcast each night free sound and light shows, amid the historic casinos.

Where is the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas?

In the heart of Downtown Las Vegas, in the United States.