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| - This place has 4-1/2 stars! How overrated! You evil people tricked me! I drove all the way from the Providence district of Las Vegas to get here because of the reviews. All that was here was a lot of sewer water and a ton of garbage. Not to mention the occasional weirdo hiding in the marshes.
There ain't much I can say about this place. It's practically just another place owners of Aquatic Painted Turtles come to abandon their once beloved pets. Aquatic turtles do seem like cool pets, but keeping the tank clean is very time consuming and difficult. Food and chemicals will end up costing hundreds of dollars a year. So, eventually the owner gets overwhelmed and will decide to bring their turtle to these public wetlands and leave them. Just to let you guys know, not only is abandoning your Aquatic Turtle illegal, but remember that someday they will grow up, and they will always remember the injustices and crimes you committed against them, and they WILL find you, and they will kill you. I read in the newspaper a few years ago that an abandoned three-toed box turtle found his owner in Boulder City almost 10 years after she was abandoned. Luckily the former owner of the turtle was at work at the moment, but when he got home he found his wife dead on the floor as a result of a single gun shot wound to the head, his oldest daughter was tied up in the bathroom and there were signs of sexual assault, and his son had been kidnapped and sold to a brothel in the Philippines. Let this be a cautionary tale for you. Do not abandon your pet turtles!
....Okay now, the sad thing was that maybe 40% of North West Las Vegas residents believed that story I just told.
Getting back to subject....
There was a lot of carp here with the occasional sunfish. Unfortunately, there was a sign that read no fishing. The good news for the environmental activists who are trying to protect the fish is that no normal person goes fishing for carp and sunfish on their own free will.
There was also many signs that prohibited swimming. The water is all reclaimed from the sewer, so I don't know why someone would want to swim here. But, this is the Boulder Highway area so many of the residents might have once used this place as their "cement pond".
They have this cool bridge and waterfall thing, but you gotta walk like 3 miles to get there. This is very difficult in 120 degree heat.
The garbage near the Flamingo Wash is just strange. It isn't so much the actual amount of garbage near the Flamingo Wash that's strange, it's the type of garbage. Monster truck tires, An old HP laptop, one of those restroom signs with the little man on it, an over sized novelty check, a DVD of the 1980s He-Man live action movie starring Dolph Lundgren, and a car battery(who throws away a car battery?). So do people actually come here to throw these things into the Flamingo Wash?
You know, I might be back when they finish construction on that new visitor center/museum. But, it's not worth coming here from the NW area. We got much better things in this area(Charleston, Floyd Lamb, Red Rock, etc).
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