I live in northern Nevada, and you can't go wrong visiting ANY time of year. We have Lake Tahoe where there is biking, kayaking, fishing, boating, hiking, picnicing, casinos with night life and shows, etc. in the summer and most of the rest of the year. In winter there is world class skiing and snow-boarding. If you head east from the Reno/Sparks area you can find the desert where there is rock hounding, ATV-ing, fossil hunting, camping, hot springs...again almost year round. Reno has casinos, shows, and quite a rich cultural experience in an art museum, symphony prchestra, and Broadway plays. It gets into the 90's in the summer, but our humidity is usually less than 25%, and it cools down into the 50's at night so you need a light blanket to sleep. We enjoy what is known as "snow shadowing" from the Sierra Nevada mountains bordering our western side of town, so we rarely get any snowfall greater than 8 inches, and usually much, much less. Even with the heavier snowfalls, the roads and highways are usually clear by noon of the day it snows, so driving is not all that much of a problem. No, I am not a member of the Chamber of Commerce. Can't you tell I just LOVE it here?????
Thurma