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| - Cute Rustic mining town off of Blue Diamond on the way to Red Rock. Lots of motorcyclists stop here to hit up the small bar in the restaurant and take a quick break from their scenic drive. There is not much parking in the front lot during the weekends so it is best to part on the outer lot and take the small train into the 'town." The kiddos love the train ride as well and it is free to take in. The sign does say that they will charge a fee to take the train back, unless you can show you spent money at the restaurant or paid the admission fee to get into the town. Im not sure how much they really enforce this as we just walked back anyhow.
The fee was $7 for kids, free for under 1 years and I forgot the charge for adults, I think its like $10 bucks. Pretty in expensive. We went in through the wheelchair area and no one even checked our wristbands. At no point did we ever get them checked actually except when we were entering the petting zoo.
This is a horrible place to take a stroller or wheelchair. All dusty small rocks and lots of stairs. Hardly any ramps and a lot of lifting was going on. Also, make sure to wear tennis shoes because you get very dusty.
We walked around and went through a mining house, a saloon, some shops and small museum. Everything is run down and not taken care of. This place has a lot of potential and with some money and some work, it could be a really cool Vegas attraction for even tourists. As a local, I don't mind paying the small fee to mosey around for an hour or two, but I would be highly disappointed if i came from out of town or from far to see the place.
We had primarily come for the zoo as my son loves animals. The petting zoo was a zoo of people, packed. There were some animals roaming around including a deer, sheep and goats. You can pay $.25 to get some food for them. Even with all the people, we were able to put a few of the animals pretty easily. Again, make sure to bring quarters. Overall, its a small place and the animals seemed to be doing ok. I don't know of many petting zoo type places in Las Vegas, so this place is unique in that aspect. There is a sign that they are a non profit and accept donations and volunteers.
In regards to the shows they put on. They had play guns that BANGED so LOUD we had to get as far as away as we could as we had our little one with us. It was way too loud in my opinion for kids. But there were plenty of kids that did not think so.
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