Las Vegas, Nevada Family Attractions Bonnie Springs
Phone: 702-296-4972. On Highway 159, Las Vegas.
May-October daily 10:30 am-6 pm, November-April daily 10:30 am-5 pm (call for
restaurant hours).
Charge per vehicle.
A former campsite used for wagon trains on their way to California via the Old
Spanish Trail, Bonnie Springs is one of the few places to see the natural
artesian springs from which the Las Vegas Valley grew and thrived. An adjacent
area offers restaurants, a petting zoo, and guided horseback rides.
Children's Zoo
At Southern Nevada Zoological Park
1775 N Rancho Dr
Phone: 702-648-5955
The zoo offers close up viewing of exotic and native wildlife including lions,
tigers, apes, talking parrots, eagles and a hands-on petting zoo.
Children's Museum
833 Las Vegas Blvd N
Phone: 702-382-3445
The wonders of the arts, sciences and humanities come to life at this intriguing
hands-on museum. Discover how our world works, and your place in it.
Dolphin Habitat at the Mirage Resort
3400 Las Vegas Blvd S
The display has 6 resident dolphins in a 1-million gallon pool with artificial
coral reefs. Children can view dolphins from above and below the water level.
Informative tours are conducted daily.
Guinness World of Records Museum
2780 Las Vegas Blvd S
Phone: 702-792-3766
Hours: Daily 9-6
Featuring colorful displays, video footage, and computer data banks of various
Guinness world records. The Las Vegas display includes: celebrities
married in Vegas, the Stratosphere and Hoover Dam.
Gameworks
Showcase Mall
3785 Las Vegas Blvd S
A 47,000 square feet of entertainment center featuring more than 250 games of
all types, including the Sega Power Sled which features three 8-foot sleds that
riders steer through a downhill snow course. It also features the world's
tallest freestanding rock-climbing structure.
Hoover Dam
The dam is located 8 mile southeast of Boulder City (25 miles from Las Vegas)on
Highway 93, Las Vegas.
Phone: 702-293-8000 for more information. Toll-free 888-248-1259 for crossing
information.
Tour hours are 9 am-4 pm daily.
Using enough concrete to build a two-lane highway stretching from San Francisco
to New York, Hoover Dam is sometimes referred to as one of the seven wonders of
the modern world. Unfortunately, since 11 September 2001, tours at this
remarkable structure have been restricted to a single offering, The Discovery
Tour. The tour includes a walk through the visitors center, exhibit gallery,
theaters and overlook, old exhibit building and the Nevada Intake Tower?one of
four towers that each take in 60,000 gallons of water per second. Visitors can
no longer travel to the bottom of the dam. The top of the dam is open to
pedestrians during daylight hours, and there are restrictions on certain
vehicles crossing the dam.
Lion Habitat at the MGM
3799 Las Vegas Blvd S
Phone: 702-891-7777
A multi-level habitat with 4 waterfalls, overhangs, a pond, and Acacia trees.
The habitat houses up to 5 lions in a themed natural habitat.
M&M World
Showcase Mall
3785 Las Vegas Blvd
Phone: 702-736-7611
Features Ethel M's flagship store on the 1st floor; a 8,500 retail store on the
2nd floor with a wall filled with M&M's and more than 3,000 M&M items;
Colorworks where visitors can select their favorite colors of M&M's; and the
4th floor where you can enjoy ice cream with what else M&M toppings.
Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park
500 E. Washington Ave. (at Las Vegas Boulevard North), Las Vegas.
Phone Phone: 702-486-3511.
Daily 8 am-4:30 pm. Admission charged.
Part of the original 1855 Mormon settlement, with the oldest original building
in Nevada. Among the artifacts: an old pump organ, loom and spinning wheel.
There are ongoing children's programs fall through spring and, once a month, a
performance of soldiers using traditional old weapons.
New York New York's Coney Island
New York New York Hotel
3790 Las Vegas Blvd S
Phone: 702-740-6969
Attractions include the Manhattan Express, a roller coaster that twists, loops
and dives around the resorts perimeter. It features the first-ever heartline
roll, which is similar to the sensation felt by a pilot during a barrel roll in
an airplane.
Primm Attractions Interstate 15 S
Primm Nevada
Phone: 702-382-1212
A Wild West themed park offering a variety of attractions including the
Adventure Canyon Log Flume Ride, Desperado Roller Coaster, MaxFlight VR2002
Roller Coaster, state of the art motion simulator theatres and Buffalo Bill's
turbo drop. An exciting western adventure park for families.
Tiger Habitat at the Mirage
Mirage Hotel Entrance
3400 Las Vegas Blvd S
Phone: 702-791-7111
Siegfried and Roy's rare and exotic Royal White Tigers are on display 24-hours a
day in an open air setting at the entrance to the Mirage Hotel.
Wet 'N Wild Water Park
601 Las Vegas Blvd S
Phone: 702-737-3819
Hours: May-Oct, daily 10-8
This 26-acre water park features a 500,000-gallon wave pool, three water flumes,
a water roller coaster, slides, cascading fountains, and lagoons. This is
definitely the number one family destination for getting relief from the desert
heat.
