Occupying five blocks on the streets of Las Vegas, Fremont Street Experience is an attraction in the historic centre of the city, a downtown district of entertainment with an endless schedule of performances. The main feature of the area is Viva Vision, at 457 metres long and 27 metres wide it is the largest video screen in the world, made up of 12.5 million LED lights. Fremont Street Experience is primarily a pedestrian walkway, leading visitors to iconic Vegas casinos through a corridor of lights, people and energy.
Every night, Visa Vision presents free light shows, combining music with captivating images on the massive overhead screen extending along the Fremont Street Experience passageway. Daily entertainment is also on display, from rock bands to stunt shows to Elvis tributes, all bringing a buzzing energy to the stage. The area is home to the largest slot machine in the world, from which there is a zip line, called SlotZilla, offering to fly visitors down the full length of the Fremont canopy. Fremont Street Experience is a pedestrian mall, and embracing the music, lights, and atmosphere while shopping in the stores or sipping cocktails in the bars is the perfect way to enjoy it.
The Deuce is a key mode of transport throughout Las Vegas, a double decker bus ideal for getting to places and seeing the main sights, and it takes visitors directly to Fremont Street Experience. For drivers, Fremont Street is easy to find by following Las Vegas Boulevard, and there is free parking validated by the casinos, with thousands of spaces to find.
The area of Fremont Street Experience is arguably the original Vegas, as it hosted the first casino and was the first to show off the classic lights of the city, with many neon signs giving it the name “Glitter Gulch”. Although the modern, larger and brighter casinos of the city moved to the Las Vegas Strip, the downtown area retained its local authenticity. Throughout the 1990s, the Fremont Street Experience developed into an alternative entertainment centre, in a series of constructions costing billions of dollars to reinstate the area as the heart of Vegas.