High Altitude Las Vegas photos by urbanphotos.net

The introduction of drones made these types of photos easier to obtain. We've taken quite a few photos of Las Vegas out of airplane windows, from the Strat observation deck, from parking garage rooftops and from the window of high floor hotel rooms.

Leaving Las Vegas in August 2002. I think the camera used was a 2.1 megapixel Olympus C700 with 10x optical zoom, which was a lot of zoom at the time. During this time when digital cameras were in their infancy, we were upgrading to a better camera for almost every trip. Mobile phones didn't have high resolution photo capabilities until around 2015.

Two views of downtown Las Vegas (Fremont St.) taken from the observation deck on top of the Strat (formerly Stratosphere.) You can't see the canopy over Fremont Street from this angle. It was built in 1995.

Here's another photo from the Strat observation deck. The Las Vegas Hilton (shown above) was the largest hotel in the world from 1981 to 1990. It was renamed "LVH" Las Vegas Hotel & Casino from 2012 to 2014 then became the Westgate Las Vegas in 2014. "Star Trek: The Experience" was in the Las Vegas Hilton 1998 to 2008.

The I-15 and I-215 freeway interchange near Las Vegas airport (Harry Reid International; formerly known as McCarran.)

The Las Vegas Strip as seen in 2005 from the Strat tower observation deck, 108 floors up.

One year later. The Las Vegas strip as seen in 2006 from the Strat tower observation deck.

One year later, December 2007. Big difference. Stardust, Frontier, and Westward Ho were demolished in 2007, and construction of Encore is blocking the view of Wynn.