In a city filled with fantastic drinking options, Rusty Spur Saloon is one of Las Vegas’ most spectacular beer-soaked experiences. Sitting in the parking lot of a largely abandoned motel that feels just a few blocks too far from the bright lights of Las Vegas and a few blocks too close to the impending desolation of the Nevada desert, Rusty Spur Saloon is an impossibly impressive bar and perhaps the best dive bar in Las Vegas.

Across the street from a Travel America Travel Center, Rusty Spur is sometimes referred to as a trucker or biker bar, but all walks of life are well represented inside. Given the bar’s location well south of Las Vegas proper toward the city of Enterprise, the assembled crowd is more likely made up of locals & regulars rather than prototypical Las Vegas tourists. That being said, dive bar enthusiasts, visitors to the nearby Silverton Casino and everyone in between are welcome.

Though the general location of the dive bar can be hard to find for first-timers, the sight of a giant, silver unicorn statue with a Pabst Blue Ribbon logo on its hindquarters is a surefire sign to know that you’ve arrived at the Rusty Spur. The Highland Inn motel surrounds the bar’s small structure noteworthy due to a jagged roof and snug floorplan. As with most of the city’s great dive bars, Rusty Spur is open 24/7 and is best experienced as both a day drinking and late night destination to really understand the bar’s total allure.

A brightly illuminated sign reading ‘Cocktails’ traces the bar’s roof just above the front door, ushering visitors into a space lined with country album covers, framed concert posters, old license plates and a collection of tin beer signs covering the bar’s ceiling. The confines here are cramped (did we mention that), underscored by the availability of no more than eight stools across the bar that dominates most of the bar’s available space. Video poker machines are set into the bar as per Las Vegas tradition, though the crowd here is just as likely to feed money into the jukebox as the machines.

The beer selection at the Rusty Spur Saloon includes all of the favorites you already know are available here, though a handful of selections slightly more exotic than PBR can be found in the refrigerator behind the bar. Ample televisions cover the space, just as likely to be tuned to a local sporting event as some random YouTube video requested by a regular.

Perhaps the bar’s most thoroughly patronized amenity is its digital TouchTunes jukebox found inside teh front door. Depending on the tastes of the bartender on the duty, there is a high likelihood that the volume attached to the songs funneled through the machine is ratcheted well beyond even traditional dive bar levels. A pair of seemingly perpetually propped-open doors on either end of the bar thankfully let some of the sound dissipate, carried toward the desert.