Fourth of July In Las Vegas: Where To Watch The Fireworks

Fourth of July in Las Vegas. Where are you going to watch the fireworks?

As of now, it's going to be about 111 degrees in Las Vegas on the Fourth of July. So you'll have to powder up the soft parts, of course, if you're going to be outside.

If you actually choose to be outside to take in the "ooooh's" and "aaaah's" of the fireworks in Las Vegas, there are several places to watch them. Here is a short list that might help you decide where to take it all in.

Fireworks will follow the Aviators and Oklahoma City games on July 2 And 3. The fireworks will start right after the games, and it's a lot fun to take in at Las Vegas Ballpark.

The Las Vegas Motor Speedway will do its annual “Night of Fire.” NASCAR racing starts at 5 p.m., and fireworks will follow. Admission is $15. Children 12 and under are free.

Most of Station Casino properties will be dazzling the sky, as they always do. Red Rock Resort, Green Vally Ranch, and the first Durango Casino fireworks will light up the Las Vegas skies, along with music from live DJ's.

Red Rock festivities will be at the Sandbar Pool. Green Valley guests can view from the resort's backyard, and Durango guests can watch from the Bel-Aire Backyard lawn. The shows all begin at 9 p.m. Admission is $35. Children under 12, $10. Admission includes light-up necklaces to make it all the more festive.

The Plaza Hotel & Casino show is said to be the largest they have ever done. The downtown sky will light up at 9p.m. Hotel guests aged 21 and over can watch from the Plaza’s rooftop pool deck. Main Street will be closed to all vehicles from Carson to Odgen from 8:45 p.m. to 9:10 p.m.

The M Resort will host their Fourth of July fireworks in partnership with the City of Henderson. They will do a 15-minute firework display choreographed to music, beginning at 9 p.m. Public viewing is free, but if you want to watch up close, you can watch at the M Pool. $30 for adults, $10 for children 10 and under. There will also be live entertainment.

Free live entertainment, food vendors, family activities and fireworks will happen at at Heritage Park, 350 S. Racetrack Rd. Gates open at 6 p.m. and the party starts at 7:30 p.m. At 9 p.m., people can watch the fireworks displays done by Lake Las Vegas (if you are out there - even better. They do a great job, and it's beautiful to watch over the lake), M Resort, and Green Valley Ranch Hotel.

If you want to really celebrate the Fourth of July in Las Vegas, it's the Summerlin Patriotic Parade! It is one of the largest parades in the state of Nevada, an it is celebrating its 30 anniversary this year! The parade is free and open to all, but it gets VERY packed, so you can actually can set up your viewing area, and chairs, starting at 7 a.m. on July 3. The parade starts at 9 a.m. on July Fourth. For more information on the parade you can click this link.

Here's to a beautiful, and SAFE Fourth of July in Las Vegas. Happy birthday, America!

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Summer vacation is upon us. So, where to? Maybe the Poop Museum!

There are some great places, national parks, monuments, and museums to visit and explore in the United States. Some great places in the state of Nevada, that you probably didn't even know about. And we'll get to those. But I have to share one of the places I just found out about.

If you drive about four hours from Las Vegas, you will find an amazing place. The Grand Canyon? Yes - but no. It's right near the beautiful Grand Canyon - but you can always see that.

Yeppers! I'm talking about the brand new - world's largest museum - for fossilized POOP!

It just opened in Williams, Arizona near the Grand Canyon. And they gave it the perfect name:  The Poozeum. Yes, I'm serious.

If you're looking for a fun road trip this summer, this cool(?) - uh, interesting(?) - new attraction just opened, in the small town of Williams, Arizona, on historic Route 66.

Most people who visit The Poozeum are actually on their way to the Grand Canyon. It's about 60 miles south of it.  But, dare I say - it smells like the Grand Canyon has some stiff competition now. (Oh shut up - that was clever, and you know it)

The poop museum just opened in downtown Williams, and it is the largest poop museum! It specifically highlights fossilized dinosaur poop. So there is definitely something to it.

The term for fossilized feces is coprolite. (COP-rolite, not CRA - well, you got it.)  They've got around 8,000 pieces in their collection, including the largest dinosaur poop ever found: a two-foot-long specimin that they think belonged to a T-rex.

Believe it or not, the museum is free.  So if you're passing through Williams, it won't cost you anything. But I think just getting a picture in front of it is reason enough to stop. Because of the name alone!

Definitely check out The Poozeum if you are heading to the Grand Canyon. Or just GO!

Here are some strange and interesting Nevada attractions you might enjoy.

The Clown Motel is just plain weird. And it is said to be haunted - which is not hard to believe. I have been to it, but refuse to stay, because it is like something out of the X-Files the Scully and Mulder would have even avoided, But it is quite the tourist attraction. At least check out the weird gift shop.    

It's a tree with a bunch of shoes hanging over branches. The story is that a couple got in their first fight as newlyweds, they had an argument right near the tree, and one left the other walking home, without shoes. They patched things up, but made an anniversary tradition out of going back each year to throw a shoe on the tree. It's interesting. In Dayton, Nevada, about 50 miles from Fallon Nevada, on The Loneliest Road In America.

The call it the Free Range Art Gallery. There are dozens of cars, vans, and trucks half-buried, or sticking straight up out of the ground, and even on top of each other. These are the canvas, and they are really colorful, and festive. It's a really cool sight to see, in the living ghost town of Goldfield. 

The Seven Magic Mountains were supposed to be a temporary exhibit, but they have been up since 2016. About 20 minutes outside of Las Vegas are seven fluorescent colored, 11 story rock towers. They have become a bit of  have become something of a cult classic, and they are a GREAT photo op. A really cool sight to see! 

There were over 900 atomic tests in Nevada. And people would take buses to see the testing. It was a huge draw for Las Vegas, and people came in from everywhere. People would bus out to the test site, put their goggles on, have a cocktail, and enjoy watching the mushroom clouds in the sky. It was quite the attraction on Las Vegas in the 50's. The Atomic Testing Museum, though, is quite amazing, and full of history. A huge, actual, nuclear reactor, a backpack nuke, and personal atomic weapons. Yikes! But the Oppenheimer era was fierce in Las Vegas.

The Little A'Le'Inn is just as kitschy as you would imagine! You can stay there, eat there, and shop. All a play on the Area 51 test site, that is not too far down the road. And all part of the heyday of the Las Vegas atomice times. Do NOT try to trek on over to Area 51, and think you'll get past anything. Lights go on, and guards swarm in from nowhere! Just keep close to the Inn.