Top 5 Things to Do in Vegas (Not Gambling)

“Subscribe for daily Top 5s: https://www.youtube.com/@top5shq?sub_confirmation=1 Top 5 things to do in Las Vegas that aren’t gambling — TopFive Travel ep.1. Picked from U.S. News Travel’s ranked “Best Things To Do in Las Vegas” list: its highest-ranked non-gambling picks that we can show you, counted down in U.S. News order (U.S. News ranks: Strip #1, Sphere #2, Fremont Street #8, Red Rock Canyon #9, Hoover Dam #12; Cirque du Soleil #4 and casino-resort entries skipped). Watch next: Top 5 Tallest Buildings https://youtube.com/shorts/nPyBYhzTwsM #5 Hoover Dam — 726 feet tall (726.4 ft, Bureau of Reclamation); holds back Lake Mead, the largest U.S. reservoir by volume, and has powered Nevada, Arizona and California since 1935. #4 Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area — about 17 miles west of the Strip; 13-mile scenic drive with hiking trails along the way. #3 Fremont Street Experience — Viva Vision canopy 1,375 feet long; light shows every hour from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.; free to enter. #2 Sphere — 366 feet tall; its exterior is the world’s largest LED display (580,000 sq ft), and it’s constantly changing. #1 The Las Vegas Strip — about 4.2 miles long; free to walk day or night, past the Bellagio Fountains, the Eiffel Tower at Paris Las Vegas and the Luxor pyramid. Sources: U.S. News Travel, Best Things To Do in Las Vegas https://travel.usnews.com/Las_Vegas_NV/Things_To_Do/ (Strip https://travel.usnews.com/Las_Vegas_NV/Things_To_Do/The_Strip_62985/ ; Sphere https://travel.usnews.com/Las_Vegas_NV/Things_To_Do/Sphere_66589/ ; Fremont Street Experience https://travel.usnews.com/Las_Vegas_NV/Things_To_Do/Fremont_Street_Experience_12894/ ; Red Rock Canyon https://travel.usnews.com/Las_Vegas_NV/Things_To_Do/Red_Rock_Canyon_National_Conservation_Area_12848/ ; Hoover Dam https://travel.usnews.com/Las_Vegas_NV/Things_To_Do/Hoover_Dam_55863/) ; Bureau of Reclamation, Hoover Dam FAQ https://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/faqs/damfaqs.html ; Wikipedia — Sphere (venue) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_(venue) ; Las Vegas Strip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Strip ; Hoover Dam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam . Ranks as of Oct 2026. Video (Wikimedia Commons): Hoover Dam — U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, “The Story of Hoover Dam” (1981, National Archives; Public domain) Red Rock Canyon — Thomas Farley, “Red Rock Wash At Red Rock Canyon NCA” (CC0) The Strip — the Dronalist, “Aerial views of Las Vegas Strip … at night” and “Flight over the Las Vegas strip in the early morning” (CC BY 3.0); Pierre André Leclercq, “Las Vegas vidéo des fontaines du Bellagio 2016” (CC BY-SA 4.0) Photos (Wikimedia Commons): Hoover Dam — Dietmar Rabich, “Hoover Dam, Nevada (Arizona-Nevada, USA) — 2012 — 6125” (CC BY-SA 4.0); Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), “Aerial view Hoover Dam 09 2017 4773” (CC BY-SA 4.0); Sixflashphoto, “Hoover Lake 1” (CC BY-SA 4.0); Christian David, “Hoover Dam and Black Canyon seen from the … Memorial Bridge” (CC BY-SA 4.0) Red Rock Canyon — Frank Schulenburg, “View of Calico Hills … from Scenic Loop Drive” (CC BY-SA 4.0); Hermann Luyken, “Scenic drive Red Rock Canyon Nevada” (2 photos, CC0); BLM Nevada, “Sunset at Red Rock Canyon NCA” (CC BY 2.0); Sixflashphoto, “Red Rock Canyon HDR 1” (CC BY-SA 4.0) Fremont Street — Julian Lupyan, “Fremont Street Light Canopy” and “Side of the Fremont Street Experience” (CC0); Daniel Lobo, “Fremont Street Experience” (2 photos, CC0); Mikerussell, “Fremont Street Experience canopy of lights” (CC BY-SA 3.0) Sphere — Y2kcrazyjoker4, “Sphere exosphere in daytime” and “Closeup of Sphere exosphere LED pucks” (CC BY 4.0); Shelby L. Bell, “Sphere – Las Vegas” (CC BY 2.0); Cory Doctorow, “The Sphere as the Moon 1” (CC BY-SA 2.0) The Strip — Clément Bardot, “Las Vegas Strip at night, 2012” (CC BY-SA 3.0); Dietmar Rabich, “Las Vegas (Nevada, USA), The Strip — 2012 — 6232” (CC BY-SA 4.0); Rob Young, “Luxor Pyramid & Sphinx (Night)” (CC BY 2.0) Outro — Sergei Gussev, “Burj Khalifa Night View 02″ (CC BY 2.0) Licenses: CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ · CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ · CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ · CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ · CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ · CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ · Public domain (U.S. government work) Footage/photos trimmed, cropped, resized, text overlaid. Music/SFX original. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any venue shown. #LasVegas #Vegas #Travel #ThingsToDo #shorts #top5 #TopFive #youtube #fyp #TravelTips”