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If you love cars, then make plans to be in Reno for Hot August Nights, a festival that features hundreds and hundreds of custom hot rods and restored muscle cars. It happens the first week in August every year and entire parking lots across the city turn into car shows. So get revved up and don't forget your camera and a big tube of sun screen to survive the heat.

Despite being in the middle of the desert, Reno offers some great opportunities for water recreation. The Tahoe Whitewater Tours is conveniently located near the bustling downtown hotel-casino and booming arts district. Lots of places to play including 11 pools for kayak fun, a kayak racing course and lots more.

Reno Open Studios offers a unique opportunity to tour local artists' studios to watch them create their different work using different mediums. See examples of painting, printmaking, pottery, weaving and jewelry making and maybe even try your hand at creating a masterpiece of your own. This tour also includes a visit to the Nevada Museum of Art.

Looking for art in all the wrong places? Then you owe it to yourself to pay a visit to the Artist's Co-op Gallery in Reno. You will find some of the most impressive works of art rendered in all types of media like oil, watercolor, pastel, pen and ink, pencil, mixed media and photography. It is such a vast array of styles created by twenty local artists and there are several openings and exhibits put on nearly every week. So make plans to visit this artsy attraction and stay awhile, as the art from these talented individuals will draw you in and will surely capture your imagination.