The Biggest Little City RoadyGoat
Reno wears its motto in lights: 'The Biggest Little City in the World,' strung across the famous Virginia Street arch (first raised in 1926, with the slogan added in 1929). For decades that little city ran on heartbreak — thanks to Nevada's loose residency law, by 1931 you could establish residency and get a divorce in just six weeks, and Reno became the divorce capital of the world, with Hollywood stars and socialites waiting out their six weeks on local 'divorce ranches.' Today the desert town has reinvented itself: the Truckee River tumbles right through a revitalized downtown with a whitewater park, and Reno is the launch pad for Burning Man, the temporary art city that rises in the Black Rock Desert to the north each summer. Casinos, mountains, river, and a wide-open high-desert sky — Reno still packs a lot into not much.
