This week, yet again, I’m posting this top ten list of places to see on a Wednesday instead of a normal Tuesday. This time around I can put the blame squarely on both the long weekend and the fact that I didn’t prepare this post days ahead of time. Either way, here’s this weeks’ top ten list for the city of Las Vegas, Nevada. I hope you guys enjoy and hopefully are able to agree with some of these. If you agree, or not, or have any questions or additional comments, please leave them down below! Thanks again.
- Salbro
Top 10 Places to See While in Las Vegas
10. LAS VEGAS SPRINGS PRESERVE
Las Vegas Springs Preserve consists of 180 acres (73 hectares) dedicated to nature walks and displays and is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Valley Water District. The Preserve is located approximately three miles west of downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s built around the original water source for Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Springs. The Springs Preserve includes colorful desert botanical gardens, museum galleries, outdoor concert and event venues, an indoor theater, historic photo gallery and a series of walking trails that meander through a wetland habitat. The Gardens at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve, previously known as the Desert Demonstration Gardens opened in 1980 at another location. The gardens now occupy eight acres (3.2 hectares) within the Springs Preserve site.
09. LIBERACE MUSEUM
The Liberace Museum, located in the unincorporated town of Paradise, Nevada, in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, houses many stage costume, cars, jewelry, lavishly decorated pianos and numerous citations for philanthropic acts that belonged to the American entertainer and pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace. The non-profit museum funds the Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts. (The museum is currently closed “indefinitely, but not forever.”)
08. ETHEL M CHOCOLATE FACTORY
The Ethel M Chocolate Factory is located in Henderson, Nevada, in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, and is the location in which all of the Ethel M and Ethel’s brand chocolates are manufactured. The company distributes their products mainly via phone and internet sales, although they also operate several retail outlets located in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, and Chicago, Illinois. Also located at this place are the Ethel M Botanical Cactus Gardens (which feature over 300 species of desert plants) and a small branch of M&M’s World. A part of the factory is open to the public and visitors can take self-guided tours.
07. CAESARS PALACE
Caesars Palace is a luxury hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, an unincorporated town within the Las Vegas metropolitan area. Caesars Palace is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corporation. Caesars is located on the west side of the Strip, between the Bellagio and the Mirage. The hotel includes a convention facility of over 300, 000 square feet (28, 000 meters squared). Caesars has 3, 960 rooms in six towers: Augustus, Centurion, Roman, Palace, Octavius and Forum. The Forum tower features guest suites with 1, 000 square feet (93 meters squared) of space. It is the only venue in Las Vegas to host a World Series of Poker Circuit Event.
06. MGM GRAND LAS VEGAS
The MGM Grand Las Vegas is a hotel casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The MGM Grand is the third largest hotel in the world and largest hotel resort complex in the United States in front of The Venetian. The MGM Grand was the largest hotel in the world when it opened in 1993. Owned and operated by MGM Resorts International, the 30-floor main building is 293 feet (89 meters) high. The property includes five outdoor pools, rivers and waterfalls that cover 6.6 acres (2.7 hectares), a 380,000 square feet (35,000 meters squared) convention center, the MGM Grand Gardens Arena, CBS Television City and the Grand Spa. It also houses numerous shops and night clubs, 19 restaurants and the largest casino in Clark County, which occupies 171,500 square feet (15,930 meters squared). Other signature attractions include: the Lion Habitat, Tabu, CSI: The Experience and Studio 54.
05. NEW YORK-NEW YORK HOTEL & CASINO
The New York-New York Hotel & Casino is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International. New York-New York uses the New York City influence of its name in several ways. Its architecture is meant to evoke the New York City skyline; the hotel includes several towers configured to resemble New York City towers such as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. In front of the property is a lake representing New York Harbor with a 150-foot-tall (46 meter) replica of the Statue of Liberty and replicas of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Main Immigration Building on Ellis Island and the Grand Central Terminal. Within the resort, particular gambling areas, lounges, restaurants, and meeting rooms are named after New York City neighborhoods or landmarks. The main casino area, for example, is named after central Park, while the shops are modeled after Greenwich Village.
04. SKY ZONE SPORTS
Sky Zone Sports is a sports, fitness and entertainment center located in Las Vegas, NV. It is home to the world’s first all-trampoline-walled playing field with suspended rotating goals. Sky Zone Sports offers the first truly 3-Dimentional sports games and activities where players are moving on the ground, zooming ten to fifteen feet in the air and running on sidewalls all at the same time.
03. DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS
Downtown Las Vegas is the central business district of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the original gambling district of Las Vegas prior to the Strip and the area still incorporates downtown gaming. Downtown Las Vegas is centered on Fremont Street (Fremont Street Experience and Fremont East). The Fremont Street Experience is a canopied street of the downtown area where casinos have been connected to the street and to each other in a unique visual manner. With more than two million lights and a state-of-the-art sound system, the Fremont Street Experience brings nightly shows through the world’s largest audio-video system. The $70 million attraction features the ultimate in multisensory entertainment. It also brings a variety of exciting special events, cuisine, special entertainment and live concerts throughout the year.
02. STRATOSPHERE LAS VEGAS
Stratosphere Las Vegas is a tower, hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, NV. Its tower is also the tallest observation tower, and the 9th-tallest freestanding structure in the United States as well as being the tallest structure in Las Vegas. It is owned by Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds, an affiliate of Goldman, Sachs & Co., who purchased American Casino & Entertainment Properties which includes the Stratosphere along with three other properties. The property’s signature attraction is the 1,149 feet (350.2 meter) Stratosphere Tower, the tallest freestanding observation tower in the United States and the second tallest in the Western Hemisphere, surpassed only by the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario. The hotel is a separate building with 24 stories, 2,427 rooms and an 80,000 square feet (7,400 meter squared) casino. The Stratosphere is the northernmost of the major Strip casinos and the only one actually in the City of Las Vegas as the rest of the Strip south of Sahara Avenue is in the unincorporated townships of Paradise and Winchester.
01. CIRCUS CIRCUS LAS VEGAS
Circus Circus Las Vegas is a hotel and 126,000 square feet (11,700 meters squared) casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, NV. It is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International. Circus Circus features circus acts and carnival type games daily on the Midway. Circus Circus has the only RV park on the Strip, providing additional accommodations in the 399 space park operated by Kampgrounds of America (KOA). Circus Circus Las Vegas is the largest permanent big top in the world.
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