CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Cafe Society
#1

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ostensibly takes place in and around Las Vegas. I watch it very infrequently, but in some of the episodes I have scene there are scenes shot in wooded locations.

Now, all of the times I’ve been to Las Vegas, I’ve stayed in the city. Driving there took me through a couple-hundred miles of desert. Flying was by Cessna, so altitudes were 9,500 or 10,500 feet (or lower). You can see a long way from a little airplane, and all I saw was desert. The mountains are pretty barren, too.

I know that the show is filmed in California. But if it’s supposed to take place in Las Vegas, where are these wooded areas supposed to be?

#2

The CSI characters (as opposed to the Vegas cops) actually work for Clark County, not the city itself. Clark County has some wooded areas, notably a piece of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.

In some episodes, though, they travel to other parts of Nevada so Clark’s geography isn’t a limiting factor.