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Can you walk around the Strip or Fremont Street with an alcoholic drink?

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On the Strip, yes, in a plastic or paper cup or an aluminum can, never glass. Under the Fremont Street canopy, only if a bar or casino in the district poured it, in plastic.

The Strip

  • Allowed: walking the sidewalk with a drink in plastic, paper or an aluminum can. A drink poured by a casino bar can leave the building with you.
  • Never: glass, at any time, whatever is in it.
  • The store rule: you may not open a drink bought packaged (from a convenience store, supermarket or liquor store) within 1,000 feet of where you bought it. In practice the corner-store beer goes back to the room.
  • New Year's Eve: from 6 p.m. the county adds a ban on glass and metal containers and a bag-size rule.

Fremont Street

Fremont is inside the city of Las Vegas, and stricter. Under the canopy you can carry a drink only if a bar or casino in the district poured it, in plastic or paper. Store-bought cans and bottles and anything glass are banned and security confiscates them. Fremont East, the bar district past the canopy, follows the city's general rules: drink inside, not on the sidewalk.

Everywhere

  • You must be 21 and carry ID; casino security can ask for it on the floor.
  • An open container in a vehicle is illegal under state law for drivers and passengers alike.
  • Public drunkenness gets a light touch on the Strip until it becomes a problem, and being carried out of a casino gets you banned from the property.

The 21-and-over rules are in first time in Las Vegas; sidewalk logistics in can you walk the Strip.

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