The historic town of Virginia City celebrates the holiday season with festive events scheduled throughout the month of December. Bundle up the kids for the Parade of Lights and Christmas Tree lighting ceremony on December 5.

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Valley of Fire State Park is one of the most spectacular geological areas in the western United States with breathtaking stone structures carved into the landscape from eons of erosion.

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Evening gowns dating from the 1900s to the 1930s look ready to wear in front of the Dangberg Home Ranch living room fireplace. Photo by Joyce HollisterElegant evening clothes conjured ghosts of the past at the Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park’s annual observance of Nevada Day. Beaded silk and sequined dresses were displayed on stands in the living room as if the Dangberg ladies had returned for a party, and a volunteer played classical pieces on the 1916 grand piano.

Rangers and volunteers had readied the house for public viewing on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. They brought out some of the thousands of artifacts found there, a veritable treasure trove of the 19th and 20th centuries as lived by prosperous Carson Valley ranchers. Now a state historic park, for decades the house had been ravaged by time and weather, not to mention squirrels, raccoons and owls…

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The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City will host a presentation commemorating the centennial of the Western Pacific Railroad in Nevada on Nov. 9.

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Mystic Falls Park, a Western pioneer world inside Sam’s Town Hotel and Gambling Hall in Las Vegas, will be transformed into a fantasy winter wonderland experience Nov. 26 through Jan. 2.

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