Start from 44 curated places around Reno, NV, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Liberty Food and Wine Exchange
Chef Mark Estee's downtown butcher-shop-and-wine-bar hybrid — meats broken down in-house, a wood-fired oven, a 200-bottle wine list, and a charcuterie program that put Reno on the cooking-magazine map. The dinner reservation that matters downtown.
Beaujolais Bistro
Chef Bill Gilbert's intimate French bistro on the Truckee Riverwalk — coq au vin, truffle filet, a coffee crème brûlée, and the regional 'Best French' award for over a decade running. Twenty-seven seats, white tablecloths, a wine list that earns its menu.
Trails & outdoors
Hunter Creek Falls Trail
A 6-mile out-and-back hike west of Reno climbing a granite canyon to a 30-foot waterfall — the most popular waterfall hike in the city, with creek crossings, conifer shade, and a rocky payoff that earns the moderate climb. The standard Reno hike.
Galena Creek Regional Park
A 1,500-acre park where Mount Rose Highway begins to climb — a network of family-friendly trails (the Jones Creek Loop is the standard 3-mile route), high-elevation conifer forest, and a visitor center that runs free naturalist talks. The afternoon trail when Hunter Creek is too long.
Things to do
Nevada Museum of Art
The 2003 Will Bruder-designed museum on West Liberty Street — California and Great Basin contemporary collection, rotating shows that pull from MoMA and SFMOMA on loan, and a rooftop sculpture deck with the best free view of downtown. The serious museum.
National Automobile Museum
The collection of 200 cars from the William F. Harrah estate — original 1907 Thomas Flyer that won the New York-to-Paris race, hot rods, classic Cadillacs, and one of the largest collections of pre-1940 automobiles in the country. The two-hour stop that's actually engaging.
Landmarks & sights
Reno Arch
The 1926 'Biggest Little City in the World' arch spanning Virginia Street in the heart of downtown — rebuilt in 1987 with the current LED-lit design, photographed by everyone who passes through, and the standing identifier of Reno. Walk under it once each visit.
Truckee River Whitewater Park
A man-made whitewater course in Wingfield Park downtown where the Truckee River runs through a series of constructed drops and waves — used by kayakers, tubers, and dog-walkers, with grass parks on both sides for sitting and watching. The free downtown amphitheater of summer.