Arts & Culture

Want to learn more about our local arts and culture? Explore these links for more information.

Children compete in Native American dance.

Within a short drive of Yerington, get your adventure on and check out Fort Churchill, Buckland Station, Pine Grove, Ludwig, and the Bluestone Mine.

Yerington offers a number of performances and events hosted by the Yerington Theatre for the Arts at the Jeanne Dini Cultural Center. You can also catch a movie at our local theatre.
There are a number of annual festivals, including the Taste of the Valley art, music, and food festival, a Fall Harvest Festival, a Spring Fling Festival, and the annual Spirit of Wovoka Pow Wow.
Other amenities include an outdoor city swimming pool and the Lyon County fairground that hosts rodeos, livestock exhibitions, truck and tractor pulls, demolition derbies, concerts, and more.
There one dozen churches in and around Yerington.
Fraternal, educational, social, and philanthropic groups include Beta Sigma Phi, Boy and Girl Scout Troops, a hospital auxiliary, Lions Club, International Order of Odd Fellows, Masonic Lodge, Moose Lodge, Optimists Club, Rotary International, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Walker River Bowman Club, and others.