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An Interactive Map Shows Leaving Las Vegas Is Easier Than You Think
It also helps residents of Vegas' many unincorporated communities determine whether they're covered by city services.
Of the nearly 40 million tourists who descended upon Sin City last year, more than 75 percent spent their nights on the Strip, the skyscraper canyon of Las Vegas Boulevard that hosts the most famous hotels and casinos.
Yet travelers who stepped no further than the Bellagio's environs or nearby McCarran Airport technically never made it to Vegas at all. The Strip is actually a little over one mile outside the city of Las Vegas, whose boundaries also exclude large patches of land inside the city itself. A look at an official map of Las Vegas' limits reveals rather startling lines in the sand (pin-drop at the Bellagio):