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A friend of mine says the longest distance a Las Vegas pedestrian can walk while remaining indoors is from the northern front door of the Excalibur to the southern end of the Mandalay Convention Center (close to a mile, he says). Is that true?
Yes, we believe it is. It’s not quite a mile; our calculations put it at around eight-tenths of one, but it’s a pretty long walk indoors along the Strip.
And it’s certainly Las Vegas’ only three-casino group that’s connected in such a way that you don’t have to walk outdoors to pass among them.
The Venetian-Palazzo and Wynn-Encore are the two Strip casinos connected by a single continuous roof.
Even downtown, with the casinos closely packed together, you have to walk out onto Fremont Street in order to leave one and enter the next. The exception is the elevated walkway across Main Street between the California and Main Street Station, also entirely indoors. (We also know of a tunnel that was dug between Binion’s Horseshoe and the Fremont in the ’50s, which might or might not still be passable, but certainly not by pedestrians).
In Reno, you can walk indoors from Circus-Circus to Eldorado, with Silver Legacy in between. Even then, at about 1,000 feet, it doesn’t give Excalibur-MBay a walk for its money, though it is a three-casino connection.