He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas... Click for moreEDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. One of them repeated often about Las Vegas is that it boasts “15,000 miles of neon.” The Neon Boneyard is a collection of about 250 old Las Vegas signs on display outside the Neon Museum, whose actual neon mileage is a mystery. It’s not that there’s some known Las Vegas neon distance that differs appreciably from this estimate. Myth InterpretationGround Zero for the miles-of-neon myth appears to be a May 2, 2000 article about Las Vegas Boulevard published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.