Where should we dine?
Many of Mesquite’s best restaurants are at its casino resorts or public golf clubs. Gregory’s Mesquite Grill at Eureka Casino Resort cooks meats and seafood over mesquite wood. One dining room is relaxed; the other more reserved. At Wolf Creek Golf Club, the Terrace Restaurant’s views mean it is in demand for events. The Grille Room at Oasis Golf Club Clubhouse also welcomes event business. Mason Street Courtyard’s private walled courtyard is warmed by a fire pit; a second outdoor venue is off the restaurant’s lounge. At the Eureka Casino Resort’s Experience, meals are accompanied by flashy fish in an aquarium on the restaurant’s back wall. There are private dining spaces indoors and out.
What’s new?
The city-owned Mesquite Sports and Events complex is drawing more sporting events to the city, among them the ReMax Long Drive Championship, which will hold its qualifiers in Mesquite this year. A Long Drivers official called Mesquite “our mecca,” adding that “the championship grid at Mesquite Sports and Event Complex is our Pebble Beach, our Augusta National.” The sports complex has five lighted fields for soccer and other sports, two pavilions, a vendor area, a concession stand, picnic and play areas, restrooms and ample parking.
How can we spend our free time?
• Visits to area museums can fill a free afternoon. In nearby Overton, the Lost City Museum’s collection focuses on early Pueblo Indian artifacts. At the Virgin Valley Museum, old photos, quilts, a whiskey still and the valley’s first slot machine give visitors a grasp of Mesquite’s roots. An evening reception at the Mesquite Fine Arts Center and Gallery gives an appreciation for local artists.
• Mesquite is a reasonable drive from multiple national parks: Bryce, Great Basin, Zion and — the biggie — the Grand Canyon’s less-crowded North Rim.
• Many of the area’s golf coures are notable. The Cal Olsen-design CasaBlanca Golf Club is site of the Nevada Open; designer Gary Panks wound his Conestoga course through canyons and rock outcroppings. Coyote Springs is a Jack Nicklaus Signature course set between two mountain ranges and pocked by 11 lakes. Affluent Golfer magazine called Wolf Creek Golf Club the “Most Spectacular New Course in America” when it opened in 2000. The course winds up and down red-rock canyons; one of its tees is as tall as an 11-story building.
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