Vegas Baby! The Biggest Ferris Wheel in the World: The High Roller Wheel in Las Vegas!

The tallest and biggest Ferris wheel in the world is in Las Vegas at The Linq (Formerly The Quad, and before that it was the Imperial Palace Casino & Hotel) – in between the Flamingo Casino & Hotel and The Linq Hotel & Casino: “The High Roller Wheel,” which is at a world record setting 550 FEET HIGH ! It is in an area VERY SIMILAR TO UNIVERSAL’S CITY WALK.  It’s 30 minutes for the whole entire loop.

It has amazing views both day and night where you can see all of the great lights, mountains, Hotels, Casinos, and famous landmarks throughout all of Las Vegas. It’s an amazing experience at the highest point of 550 feet, where you can see all of Las Vegas- all the Casinos and all the way out to the mountains!

You can look down at other attractions- the Bellagio Water Fountains show, and The Paris Eiffel Tower– for about 10 minutes during your ride, as you can see in the photos below:

You can get some beautiful photos and videos as you can see in this video on this show! We will give you a tour of this amazing Las Vegas attraction from inside one of The passenger cabins (or capsules), and show you all of the different angles that you can look out to see amazing panoramic views! We will also show you from inside the cabin, where they have fascinating videos to give you the history of Las Vegas, all the details on the this High Roller Wheel, and show you the current shows and things to do while you are in town. This video is hosted by TV Entertainment Host: Mario Lopez. We will take you on the countdown to the very top height of 550 feet- as YOU become a “High Roller” and become a new member of the High Roller Club!

From this High Roller Ferris Wheel, you can now see Las Vegas’s newest attraction: The Sphere- which is like a giant planet just landed on earth- right in Vegas by the Ferris Wheel:

The best time to go is 15 minutes before Sunset- so you have a beautiful view while the Sun is still up and the Sunset and then when it gets totally dark and you can see all the lights of the Casinos.

I learned from my Casino Host to recommend to you: to get there about 15 minutes before the sunset, so you can get complete daytime and nighttime views, as in the above photo you can see the very start of this beautiful sunset, and the moon which is white and in upper-right, with great detailed daytime views of all the hotel casinos, and then watch the complete sunset, and then see all the beautiful lights as it gets pitch dark!

High Roller is a 550-foot tall (167.6 m), 520-foot (158.5 m) diameter giant Ferris wheel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States of America. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corporation.  

It opened to the public on March 31, 2014 and is currently the world’s tallest Ferris wheel. It is 9 ft (2.7 m) taller than its predecessor, the 541-foot (165 m) Singapore Flyer, which had held the record from 2008.  High Roller was announced in August 2011 as the centerpiece of Caesars Entertainment Corporation’s $550 million The LINQ . Arup Engineering, which previously consulted on the Singapore Flyer, acted as the structural engineer. 

The wheel rotates on a pair of custom-designed spherical roller bearings, each weighing approximately 19,400 lb (8,800 kg). Each bearing has an outer diameter of 7.55 feet (2.30 m), an inner bore of 5.25 feet (1.60 m), and a width of 2.07 feet (0.63 m). The outer rim comprises 28 sections, each 56 feet (17 m) long, which were temporarily held in place during construction by a pair of 275-foot (84 m) radial struts, prior to being permanently secured by four cables. The passenger cabins (or capsules) are mounted on the wheel’s outboard rim and are individually rotated by electric motors to smoothly maintain a horizontal cabin floor throughout each full rotation. Preliminary designs anticipated 32 passenger cabins, each with a 40-passenger capacity —with the final design accommodating 28 40-person cabins and a total capacity of 1,120 passengers. Each 225-square-foot (20.9 m²) cabin weighs approximately 44,000 ponds (20,000 kg), has a diameter of 22 feet (6.7 m), includes 300 square feet (28 m²) of glass, and is equipped with eight flat-screen televisions and an iPod dock.  At night the wheel is illuminated by a 2,000-LED system which can display a single solid color, differently colored sections, multiple colors moving around the rim, and custom displays for special events and holidays.

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