Elko, NV Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

One of the few Nevada towns worth aiming for, if you're here at the right time of year, is ELKO , a straggling highway town a hundred miles from the Utah border. The self-proclaimed last real cowtown in the West is the center of one of the largest open-range cattle ranching regions in the US, and the fitting home of the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering , held here every January. People get together in a sort of celebration of folk culture, telling stories around campfires, singing about the lonesome life on the range, and keeping alive the dying traditions and tales of the Wild West. During the 72-hour party of the … more »