Primm, Nevada

Primm is a town in Clark County in the U.S. state of Nevada. Primm is off Interstate 15 and is the border town between Nevada and the U.S. state of California. Primm consists of three hotels with casinos and a fashion outlet center. Here the last chance to gamble is given for departing tourists from Las Vegas before reaching California.

Due to the location in the Mojave desert temperatures up to 45 ° C can be achieved here in the summer.

Las Vegas is about 70 kilometers away.

An internationally known attraction of Primm is the Desperado roller coaster of Buffalo Bill's Resort & Casino. The track is 69 m high, 1781 m long, up to 128 km / h and reaches accelerations of 4 g up to 1996 Desperado was the tallest roller coaster in the world.

Special Events

Primm was provided in 2004 as the destination of the first DARPA Grand Challenge. In the competition of the research agency of the U.S. Department of Defense autonomously acting vehicles from Barstow (California ) over 150 miles ( 240 km) on roads closed to traffic and sandy slopes should drive through the desert. None of the participants reached the goal.

2005 was in Primm start and finish of the next competition of the Grand Challenge. This time, four participants have successfully completed the 210 km (130 mile) course through the desert and over a mountain range.