Probably a 1 day trip if you are living closer to it (around 100 miles) or a 2 day trip from bay area in CA. I would not say it as a MUST visit, but a time-pass place. We started from Sacramento on a saturday afternoon and it took around 2 hours to reach Reno. Its in Nevada and the road was really cool. Its a ride on the small hills and nice scenarios to enjoy. On the way is the Lake Tahoe (very famous for Bay-Area SW Engineers 
), but we did not visit it anyway due to tome constraints.
There are quite a number of casinos in Reno. But honestly they are all placed apart. Its difficult to have a look at them in a single shot. Of course i am comparing it to Atlantic City in East Coast. That was more organised and more colorful than Reno. At this point of time i am not comparing anything to Vegas .
It was a good trip definitely worth remembering. Visit it if you are some where near to this place.
On 26.May.2007 i visited folsomlake near Roseville, Ca. It was the lake that we found on a detour. We went to the Auburn city with full of small hills and lot of cultivation around for the berries and christmas trees. We were at a place by name SHILOH TREE FARM in Auburn and by the time we went there we were told that the farm is oipened only during the monthof december. The farm owner has kindly let us in to see and stroll the farm a little-bit. But with a little bit of caution that he killed around 2 rattle snakes in the past week and to watch carefully around. That took the party mood out of my peopld and everyone is like….when are we getting into the car and run out of this place. We barely managed to take few snaps and then we hurried to come down the hill.
But the interesting part was that from that hill, we could see the beauty of the lake at a far distance and its was beautiful. I did visit few lakes in Germany and Swiss but i am truly amazed with this one. As i hear there are 3 or 4 entry points to this lake and once you get in…. you can take your own time to move around in the car and park it in a place where you can spend some time alone. There are some places that are really crowded. You have to take your beach ware kind of stuff is you really want to enjoy. They do rent some boats.
We really enjoyed a lot and i woud definately recomment this place.
