This will be the first time any Rath Yattra will be held in Nevada, according to Annabelle Younger, organizer of the Yattra event.

Younger said on Friday that the rath (chariot) will be trucked in from Los Angeles in California, covering about 450 miles. About sixty devotees will be pulling the chariot with two ropes and about twenty devotees will be behind the chariot holding two ropes for applying brakes to it. A Jagannath statue will be shipped in from California to be placed inside the chariot temple, she states. 

Some devotees will be performing devotional dances, playing Hindu traditional music and chanting Krishna bhajans (hymns) en route. Laddus (ball like Indian sweetmeat), almonds, and dry fruits will be distributed as prasad (blessed food which has first been offered to the Lord) to the spectators on the way out of this mobile temple. This chariot will meander its way down Carson Street, starting from Williams Street and ending in Stewart Street, and passing in front of Nevada State Capitol (which houses Nevada State Senate and Assembly) and Nevada State Museum, Annabelle Younger adds. 

Nevada will be commemorating 143 years of statehood during this celebration. There are about 2,000 Hindu families in the state of Nevada, mostly in Las Vegas and Reno. Traditional history places Lord Krishna, eighth avtar (incarnation) of Vishnu, around 3,000 BCE. 

"I feel very honored and humbled in participating in Rath Yattra of Lord Jagannath on the soil of great state of Nevada, where sun always shines," stated Rajan Zed (who read the historical first Hindu prayer in United States Senate in Washington DC few months back), when contacted.