El Rancho Vegas
El Rancho Vegas opened on April 3, 1941, on Highway 91, the corridor that became the Las Vegas Strip. It was an early large-scale hotel-casino beyond downtown Las Vegas.
The property helps mark the Strip’s emergence as a resort corridor. Its casino, lodging and entertainment brought a new destination format beyond downtown, making El Rancho Vegas a useful starting point for understanding how the Strip began to take shape.
All propertiesThrough time
- Opened
- April 3, 1941
This historical profile does not establish a final closing date for every use of this site or confirm current operation.
Sources
- Nevada State Museum Las Vegas — El Rancho Vegas — On April 3rd 1941, the El Rancho Vegas opened on Highway 91
What remains uncertain
- The exact present-day parcel is not asserted on this basic page.
- The Clark County street-address match is approximate, with roughly 110 m north/south by 90 m east/west half-extent uncertainty; the map point is not a surveyed resort boundary.
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Profile released September 21, 2026.