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2008 Special Events
May 9-11, 2008 Spring Barrel Race Click for Info Winnemucca Events Complex
May 23-25, 2008 Run-A-Mucca Motorcycle Rally Click for Info Winnemucca - Downtown
May 30-June 1, 2008 Mule Races, Show & Draft Horse Challenge Winnemucca Events Complex
June 7, 2008 Basque Festival Winnemucca Convention Center
June 14, 2008Koyote Kruisers "Kruise 2008" Click for Info Winnemucca Events Complex
June 18-22, 2008 Nevada High School Finals Rodeo Winnemucca Events Complex
June 15, 2008 Fathers Day BBQ Paradise Valley, NV
July 4-6, 2008 McDermitt Ranch Rodeo McDermitt, NV
July 12 & 13, 2008 Winnemucca Junior Rodeo Winnemucca Events Complex
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Welcome to Winnemucca, NV the Crossroads of the West.
Our high desert city is full of classic charm. Our historic downtown area is interspersed with delightful boutiques, restaurants, pubs and the hometown businesses that serve our community.
Winnemucca is a great jumping-off point for many types of outdoor recreation. Nearby are fabulous hiking, hunting and biking trails, as well as miles of ATV and off-road adventure trails. In town, there are over 1,000 hotel rooms, several diverse restaurants, casino gaming, and plenty of other opportunities for fun.
Winnemucca has never laid claim to being the oldest settlement in the state, but its location has been more or less continuously occupied since about 1830 when beaver trappers like Peter Ogden established a camp here on what they called Marys River.
Twenty years later, when westward bound wagon trains began using the Humboldt Trail, the trading post on the southern bank of the river at Graveley Ford came to be called Frenchmans Ford, and by 1863 when it was renamed for the last time, in honor of the principal Paiute chief of the region, a rough settlement had grown up along the river bank. |
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