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Visitors Guides now available

By ADELLA HARDING - Staff Writer
Monday, December 19, 2005 12:34 PM PST

Tom Lester, tourism and conventions manager for the Elko Convention and Visitors Authority, holds the new Visitors Guide. (Adella Harding/Elko Daily Free Press)

ELKO - Visitors Guides for the new year are ready to promote the Elko area, featuring the “Nevada With Altitude” theme.

“They have a whole fresh look,” said Elko Convention and Visitors Authority's tourism and conventions manager, Tom Lester.

The new guides have a winter recreation spread for the first time, covering ice fishing, snowmobiling, skiing at SnoBowl and cross-country skiing.

Information also is available on where to rent snowmobiles, cross-country skis, all-terrain vehicles and mountain bikes.

“We've added quite a few different things,” Lester said. “In the future, we'd like to add a dining guide.”

The publication also outlines the outdoor adventures, such as fishing, rock climbing, mountain biking and more, including descriptions of recreation trails.

Suggestions for day trips are included to Jarbidge, Wildhorse, Tuscarora, Metropolis, Angel Lake, Lamoille Canyon, Harrison Pass and Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge.

And the guide offers information about Northeastern Nevada Museum and Elko Area Chamber of Commerce's Sherman Station, the Western Folklife Center, lodging facilities and campgrounds, flights, services, where to shop and a calendar of special events.

Colorful photographs also highlight the publication.

The Visitors Guide is published by the Elko Daily Free Press, and ECVA provided a $5,000 grant and partnered with the Free Press on the publication.

Lester said ECVA will take Visitors Guides to roughly 15 consumer trade shows this year, as well as sending them out to 1,000 to 1,500 people from out of town requesting them.

Issues of the publication also are being provided to the Elko Area Chamber of Commerce, motels and hotels “and everyone marketing Elko as a destination,” Lester said.

“I would like to put them in Scenic Airlines and SkyWest planes,” he also said.

Unlike the recently published events calendar, the Visitors Guide is designed for distribution outside of the Elko area to bring tourists to the area, Lester said.

“We took it to the Governor's Conference on Tourism, and it got a good review there. The Free Press did a nice job,” he said.

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