Peaceful Vegas casino? An oxymoron, but true

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LAS VEGAS — Ten miles from the bright lights of Sin City, nestled near the entrance to a scenic national conservation area, is the priciest off-Strip casino resort ever built in Las Vegas. Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa, which opened earlier this month, is hoping to lure people away from the Las Vegas Strip to an opulent vacation spot set against the western mountains. Just like resorts in the heart of Vegas, you can gamble here, be pampered in a spa, indulge in a fine meal or party in a decadent nightclub. But unlike resorts in town, Red Rock — which cost nearly a billion dollars to build — also offers instant access to rugged adventures.

The resort's offerings include an "Adventure Spa" with guided activities such as horseback riding, hikes in nearby Valley of Fire State Park, mountain biking and rock climbing in Red Rock Canyon. Prices for the outings range from $59 for a vehicle tour of Red Rock Canyon to $175 for a raft trip. Indoors, the resort — which is hoping for a five-star rating — is elegant. The lobby is swathed in ebony and teak woods and marble, the shapes and colors mimicking the surrounding rocky, desert landscape. The glitz of Las Vegas shines through, too, including a 32-foot high chandelier in the rotunda and a waterfall column that appears to spill over the bar in the Lucky Bar.


Fireworks explode during the grand opening of the Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa earlier this month in Las Vegas.

The resort has 414 rooms (with hundreds more to be completed by early next year), a 35,000-square- foot spa, 62 table games, 3,200 slot machines and a three-acre pool-and-beach area that has rental cabanas and outdoor dining. At night, the operators expect to draw on the celebrity crowd to help fill its Cherry nightclub, owned by club magnate Rande Gerber, husband of supermodel Cindy Crawford. Red Rock Resort cost $925 million to build, a fraction of the cost of the $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas, which opened last year in the heart of the city. But Red Rock is more than twice the $415 million Station Casinos spent on Green Valley Ranch, its predecessor in southeastern Henderson that opened in 2001.

"Every time I think we've hit the limit, we go beyond the limit," said Michael Green, a history professor at the Community College of Southern Nevada. "We've come a long way since the $6 million Bugsy [Siegel] spent for the Flamingo" built in 1946, he said.

Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa: Nightly rates range from $129 to $600. www.redrocklasvegas.com or 866-767-7773. Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area : The 197,000-acre preserve is administered by the federal Bureau of Land Management: see www.nv.blm.gov/redrockcanyon for details on visiting the area, or phone 702-515-5350. A nonprofit group also has details on visiting the area: www.redrockcanyonlv.org/ There are scenic drives, hikes and more.

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