Las Vegas Highland Games 2026

[jsrnephdoc]

You both look smashing! Las Vegas is close enough to me for road trips. But my wife would kill me if I attended Highland games there. She wants every second in Vegas to be spent at the strip.

Ouch! We moved here less than a year ago. Our Realtor (my wife's daughter) did at least ONE thing right. She made sure that even though we have a Las Vegas mailing address, we're just about as far removed from that infernal "strip" as possible but still technically BE in Las Vegas. Just a few miles away there are nice mountain meadows with wild horses wandering in them, mountains tall enough to host decent winter sports activities, and nice paved bicycle paths. And it's true that there are nice restaurants on "the strip," but I avoid it as much as humanly possible.

And, I learned Saturday that OC Richard's fund of knowledge regarding piping and tartan is as impressive as it appears in print!

It was my first time in the enormous park where the games were held (at the same time as some other gatherings). My son and I left our car in a small lot, wandered quite a ways honing in on the sounds of solo pipers, but at the end of the day there were no such sonic guideposts to get us back to the car. An HOUR to find it!

[User]

... we're just about as far removed from that infernal "strip" as possible but still technically BE in Las Vegas. ...

Love makes me do crazy things. Like when I married a woman who enjoys crowds, noise, and displays of opulence.
Opposites attract, I suppose.