NNRY Sunset, Stars, and Champagne Train
2025-08-02 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-08-07 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-08-09 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-08-14 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Nevada Northern Railway, 1100 Avenue A, Ely, NV, 89301, United States
The Nevada Northern Railway offers a most unique experience and look forward to having you join us for a ride back in history here in the mountains of Central Nevada, this time for the Sunset, Stars, and Champagne Train! Venture out into the rural mountains of White Pine County for nothing less than picturesque views and our renowned dark skies, all while relaxing and socializing with bottomless champagne. Basic info about Nevada Northern Railway rides, including the Sunset, Stars, and Champagne Train can be found below.

Don’t miss the train! All Nevada Northern Railway trains depart from ELY, NV on-time, regardless of the weather, as they have for over a century now, so be at the depot ready for boarding 30 minutes before departure time.
Everyone needs a ticket
No passes or discounts are available on themed trains (other than Membership discount…see below)
Sorry, pets are not allowed on the trains or tours. Certified service animals are always welcome, but please take necessary precautions for this somewhat noisy, industrial environment.

Learn more about the Railway by clicking HERE!

NNRY Steam Train to Robinson Canyon
2025-08-03 11:30 - 12:00, 2025-08-04 09:30 - 11:00, 2025-08-10 11:30 - 12:00, 2025-08-11 09:30 - 11:00 | Nevada Northern Railway, 1100 Avenue A, Ely, NV, 89301, United States
NNRY Steam Excursion Train to Robinson Canyon
The NNRY’s Regular Steam Excursion Train through Robinson Canyon.
Book Your Ticket and More at www.NNRY.com!

NNRY Diesel Locomotive Train
2025-08-05 09:30 - 11:00, 2025-08-06 09:30 - 11:00, 2025-08-12 09:30 - 11:00, 2025-08-13 09:30 - 11:00 | Nevada Northern Railway, 1100 Avenue A, Ely, NV, 89301, United States
NNRY Diesel Locomotive Train
The NNRY’s Diesel Locomotive Train to the Valley Vista or Robinson Canyon.
Book Your Ticket and More at www.NNRY.com!

Leaping Learners
2025-08-05 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-08-12 10:00 - 11:00 | White Pine County Library, 950 Campton St, Ely, NV, 89301, United States
Leaping Learners
Ages 3 – 4
A Traditional Preschool Story Hour
10am – 11am

Robinson Canyon (Diesel)
2025-08-07 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-08-14 16:30 - 18:00 | Nevada Northern Railway, 1100 Avenue A, Ely, NV, 89301, United States
Robinson Canyon (Diesel)
Take a trip up Egan on a train pulled by a NNRY Diesel locomotive!
Details and tickets at www.NNRY.com!

Ely Elks Lodge Bingo
2025-08-07 18:00 - 20:30 | Ely Elks Lodge, 694 Campton St., Ely, NV, 89301, United States
Ely Elks Lodge Bingo
Bingo every first Thursday at the Ely Elks Lodge. Hot dogs and Chili are sold. Great time, great people, and BINGO!!!

WPC Library Chess Club
2025-08-08 10:00 - 11:00 | White Pine County Library, 950 Campton St, Ely, NV, 89301, United States
WPC Library Chess Club
Second Friday

Ely Renaissance Village OPEN
2025-08-08 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-09 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-15 10:00 - 16:00 | Ely Renaissance Village, 400, Ely, NV, 89301, United States
Ely Renaissance Village Open!
For the ultimate heritage experience of White Pine County, the Ely Renaissance Village may top the list.
Tour a total of nine houses, seven of which have each been themed after a different ethnic background that helped shape our community. The Village is made for vacation planning and is open Fridays and Saturdays in the summer. Check out the 360 video below, which allows you to click and drag different views as it provides you a feel for the site before visiting it in person: https://bit.ly/3hGMr5d

Learn More Here!

NNRY Excursion Train
2025-08-08 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-08-15 16:30 - 18:00 | Nevada Northern Railway, 1100 Avenue A, Ely, NV, 89301, United States
NNRY Excursion Train
The NNRY’s Regular Excursion Train through Robinson Canyon.
Book Your Ticket, Discover Which Train is Running, and More at www.NNRY.com!

NNRY Star Train
2025-08-08 19:00 - 21:30, 2025-08-15 19:00 - 21:30 | Nevada Northern Railway, 1100 Avenue A, Ely, NV, 89301, United States
For those of you who aren’t fortunate enough to live up here in the Rural Inter-Mountain West, you are missing our breathtakingly beautiful night sky. For those of you who live in these parts, you may not have taken the time lately to stop and gaze at the Heavens. Either way, plan a special night out with those beautiful stars of ours. This area has one of the darkest skies in the lower 48 states which provides the setting for our wonderful night skies, which is why there is the Nevada Northern Railway Star Train.
Nevada Northern Railway’s Star Train pulls out of Ely on selected Summer evenings with the Dark Rangers of Great Basin National Park aboard. These rangers love the night sky as much as we all do, but they probably know a whole lot more about stars than all of us put together. They will guide us on our journey to find interesting things up in the Heavens on this journey. We will stop the train away from town to take full advantage of the dark night skies. The National Park Service Rangers will have special telescopes set up for viewing the night sky, and will be there to tell us all about it.
Watch a video of the experience as covered on the CBS This Morning Show
What to expect:

Our trains feature on-board restroom, wheelchair accessibility, and snacks and beverages available for purchase.
The Star Trains are pulled by one of our vintage diesel locomotives, and leave around sunset, so you will have a chance to see the sun as it sinks down over the Steptoe Valley. It is a great time of day to admire the rural Intermountain West at its best.
It is usually clear up here at night, but the train will still operate and the Park Rangers will still be on-board with an astronomy show-and-tell regardless of what Mother Nature dishes up.
Would you also like to take the trip up toward the old Ruth Mining District on a train pulled by a steam locomotive? Who wouldn’t? We also have a steam-powered excursion train departing at 4:30 pm on Friday afternoons, and another one at 1:00 pm on Saturday. During the check-out process you can add a Four-Day pass at a reduced rate to go on additional train rides while you are here.
Note that the trains depart from and return to Ely, NV with National Park Service Rangers on board. The train does not travel into or from Great Basin National Park. Ely is the closest town to Great Basin National Park (1h west), so it makes a logical hopping-off point for an extended visit to the Park. Don’t miss the opportunity to explore the rest of the National Park, including Lehman Caves.

Learn more about the Railway by clicking HERE!

Tour de Schell
2025-08-09 08:00 - 15:00 | Ely, NV, 89301, United States
Tour de Schell
Fresh off of the release of the new Ely Gravel Adventure Field Guide, The Rotary Club of Ely is excited to expand gravel cycling in Nevada by producing the inaugural Tour de Schell.

A gravel race through Nevada’s copper country. Cyclists will get the option to choose from 3 routes that will showcase some of the finest gravel in Nevada.

Distances include:
Long Distance 118 mi. 5,438 ft of gain
Medium Distance 81mi. 4,084 ft of gain
Short Distance 64mi. 3,575 ft of gain.

GPS of the routes and maps coming soon.

Participants will be treated to western hospitality on and off the course with food, drinks, music, and activities at the event and things to do throughout the community all weekend.

For the complete Race Guide with all the information you will need to maximize your enjoyment at this event, click HERE!

To access the maps of routes and elevation profiles for the 3 different categories, click HERE!

This event comes right off the tails of the recently released Ely Gravel Adventure Field Guide. The first Gravel Adventure Field Guide in the state of Nevada has been long awaited.

Per Gravel Adventure Field Guide:
“The Basin and Range landscape of eastern Nevada represents one of the last frontiers within the ever-evolving American West. Imposing peaks between long stretches of valley floors have served as barriers to large scale development. A nineteenth-century Pony Express rider in White Pine County saw hard days of unforgiving miles. Their courage and determination lives on in the spirit of Nevadan generations that have followed.
Today, approximately 80 percent of the old Pony Express Trail travels through Nevada public lands. Over the years, natural-resource development and recreational access have helped open the Basin and Range of White Pine County to economic opportunity and tourism. The county’s remote location continues to offer adventurers the chance to escape the trappings of modern life and experience the benefits of living, working, and playing in a truly rural setting.
With the town of Ely leading the way, off-road adventure riding is helping the communities of White Pine County reimagine themselves. Miles of unpaved roads, along with trail development, have rekindled the gritty Old West spirit that gives eastern Nevada an edge as the region seeks to balance the booms-and-busts of years past. Gravel enthusiasts are part of this solution-based approach.”
The Ely Gravel Adventure Field Guide is available at the Bristlecone Convention Center in Ely, NV. Or pick up yours at any of favorite bike shops in the west!
Learn more about the Ely Gravel Adventure Field Guide and prepare for Tour de Schell HERE!

The other Ely gravel race of the year is our annual Race the Rails! Learn More HERE!
Discover More Events Throughout the Year HERE!

NNRY Excursion Train
2025-08-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Nevada Northern Railway, 1100 Avenue A, Ely, NV, 89301, United States
NNRY Excursion Train
The NNRY’s Regular Excursion Train through Robinson Canyon or Valley Vista.
Book Your Ticket, Discover Which Train is Running, and More at www.NNRY.com!

NNRY Bingo Bash Express
2025-08-09 16:30 - 18:00 | Nevada Northern Railway, 1100 Avenue A, Ely, NV, 89301, United States
Bingo Bash Express
Bingo Was His Namo… on the Train!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Join us for a game of bingo while riding behind a vintage steam locomotive! When the train leaves you will receive two bingo cards, with the option to purchase more. As you travel along the tracks, the caller will announce bingo numbers over the sound system. Winners who hit a bingo, will receive prizes!
Tickets and More Info at www.NNRY.com

Summer Concerts in the Park - 2025
2025-08-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Broadbent Park
Ely Summer Concerts in the Park – 2025
Join us this summer for our Ely Summer Concerts in the Park – 2025! We’re very excited to keep the music going this summer, and it’s all taking place at Broadbent Park. Looking forward to seeing the community come down for these FREE shows. Let’s support these amazing musicians and let them feel welcome. Everyone is invited! These shows are made for families, and blankets in the grass.

August 9th – False Rhythms
False Rhythms is a five-piece reggae band from Gardnerville, Nevada. it was formed by twin brothers Dalton and Garrett Moore in 2012. Who are now on the rise in their local scene and are becoming a force to be reckoned with. join the resistance!
Instagram: False Rhythms (@falserhythmsofficial) • Instagram photos and videos
Facebook: False Rhythms Facebook
Spotify: False Rhythms | Spotify

Iron Horse Cookery Cook Off
2025-08-15 08:00 - 14:00 | Nevada Northern Railway, 1100 Avenue A, Ely, NV, 89301, United States
Iron Horse Cookery Cook Off
Cook a meal on the Fireman’s Shovel of a steam Locomotive!
The Nevada Northern Railway has been acclaimed as the “Most authentic and best preserved historic railroad facility in America.” But it isn’t just about preserving the equipment. That’s an important part of it, but the railroad is also all about preserving the stories of the people, mostly first-generation immigrants, who worked there.
The NNRY did not invent cooking in the firebox of a steam locomotive here. That was the ingenuity of the early train crews. “During the day” train crews worked long days – sometimes 16 or 18 hours in a single day. They could not take a break and go get breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The lived on the locomotive during their shift. They improvised food as they could, and often cooked on the locomotive.
