Several travel trends for 2025 have emerged, including “JOMO” (Joy of Missing Out) escapes and “detour travel,” where travellers focus on enjoying the journey as much as the destination. From sagebrush saloons and desert landscapes dotted with colourful landmarks to a wide range of themed road trips, Nevada offers the perfect backdrop for these new travel experiences. Check out the latest trends in travel and plan your 2025 Nevada escapade, where the adventure unfolds every mile along the way.
“Revel” in travel’s latest trend
There is a new travel trend on the horizon: JOMO travel. According to recent findings from Expedia’s Unpack ‘25, travellers are ringing in the new year with “revelry travel” – travelling for joy, or JOMO travel. Everyone has experienced FOMO, the fear of missing out, but it’s time to embrace JOMO, the joy of missing out. This means leaving the hustle and bustle of everyday life behind and hitting the open road, escaping into nature or staying in a remote location. Welcome to rural Nevada! Billed as the Road Trip Capital of the USA, Nevada offers 10 themed routes to take visitors across the state, such as the Cowboy Corridor with its Western themed museums, poetry and music festivals, and dining and drink experiences highlighting the confluence of buckaroo, Basque, and American Indian traditions that have shaped Nevada. Road trippers willing to leave their Wi-Fi behind in search of stunning landscapes, state parks, ghost towns and sagebrush saloons, can be confident they will be anything but lonely, and in fact, may just find joy in the Silver State.
Take a detour off the Vegas Strip
Unpack ’25, the data-driven travel trends from Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo, also proclaims “detour travel” will steer visitors’ vacation planning. Detour destinations are lesser known and less crowded than tourist hotspots, but these rising stars are well worth putting on an itinerary, either as an add-on or a new, stand-alone destination. Nevada’s Neon to Nature road trip is a perfect example of how to get a little out there. This hub-and-spoke itinerary encourages visitors to Las Vegas to go beyond The Strip and explore what the surrounding region has to offer. Communities like Henderson, Boulder City, Laughlin and Mesquite offer red rock state parks, hiking, cycling and kayaking tours, championship golf, and other outdoor pursuits not found in a casino.
Sipping through Sagebrush Saloons
There are few better places to soak-up Nevada’s history than its historic watering holes or “Sagebrush Saloons,” as the state calls them. To guide road trippers across the state, the Sagebrush Saloon Passport highlights nearly 30 iconic options. Free to download, the passport allows the user (and a designated driver) to digitally check in at each location and rack up points toward exclusive swag. At each stop, visitors will discover the history of both the saloon and the surrounding community. Stops include Nevada’s oldest drinking parlour, the Genoa Bar & Saloon in the Carson Valley, which is also the oldest settlement in the state; Eureka Owl Club, a full-service bar along Highway 50, one of the most remote and haunted highways in the country; and the legendary Odeon Saloon in Dayton, which has drawn the likes of Wild West cowboys, Mark Twain and Marilyn Monroe.
Go your own way in the road-tripping capital of America
Nevada boasts 10 themed road trips for every interest. For example, the Free-Range Art Highway from Las Vegas to Reno offers free outdoor art installations enroute, with its colourful displays worthy of any social feed. A short detour off the Lake Tahoe Loop leads budding paleontologists to find Nevada’s official state fossil in Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. The Great Basin Highway takes travellers to Great Basin National Park – home to the Bristlecone Pine, the oldest tree in the world – and Death Valley National Park, on the Death Valley Rally is the lowest, driest and hottest point in North America for snowbirds looking for a warmer climate and desert landscape.
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