Top Kid-Friendly Attractions On The Las Vegas Strip

Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden And Dolphin Habitat (Credit, Heather Turk)

Las Vegas may no longer market itself as a family destination, but the Disneyland for Adults still has plenty of attractions guests of all ages will love. In fact, the Las Vegas Strip boasts some of the coolest kid-friendly attractions in the city. From awesome animal encounters to a thrilling indoor theme park, here's a look at some of Las Vegas' most popular Strip attractions when it comes to pleasing kids and kids at heart.

Nevada's largest indoor theme park, The Adventuredome at Circus Circus features 25 rides and attractions sure to keep families entertained. Home to the world's only indoor double-loop, double-corkscrew roller coaster, Canyon Blaster, The Adventuredome recently unveiled its newest roller coaster, El Loco, which features unique drops and over-the-edge twists and turns. It also recently introduced the first-ever Batman-themed laser maze, which invites guests to test their inner superhero with a fun, physical and mental workout (nominal fee applies). Open year round, the five-acre theme park maintains a constant temperature of 72 degrees, making it the perfect place for families to escape the desert heat. It's also the perfect place to celebrate Halloween, as the park transforms into Fright Dome every October, one of the nation's top Halloween haunts featuring six haunted houses, three scare zones, more than 300 ghoulish and gore-clad professional actors, nightly stage shows and more. Regardless of when you visit, families are sure to be left screaming for more!

Offering visitors a slice of the Big Apple on the Las Vegas Strip, The Big Apple Coaster & Arcade recreates the aura of Brooklyn's Coney Island amusement park in the early 1900s. Featuring an assortment of midway-style carnival games and coin-operated video games, the highlight of this family-friendly arcade has to be its roller coaster, which provides more than 1 million riders with heart-stopping action and excitement each year. The world's first coaster to feature a 180-degree "heartline" twist and dive maneuver, guests get to sit inside classic cab cars as they enjoy a ride filled with twists, loops, dives and even the thrilling force of negative Gs while overlooking the Las Vegas Strip.

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Shark Reef Aquarium (Credit, Heather Turk)

Shark Reef Aquarium
Mandalay Bay
3950 Las Vegas Blvd. S.
Las Vegas, NV 89119
(702) 632-4555
www.sharkreef.com

This popular aquarium features 14 exhibits devoted to dangerous aquatic predators, including a 1.3 million-gallon shipwreck exhibit teeming with sharks, sea turtles and fish. Home to more than 100 different species, including 15 species of sharks, Shark Reef Aquarium features more than 2,000 animals on display. Guests can learn more about some of Shark Reef's inhabitants during its new Animal Encounters program, which takes participants behind the scenes to assist in feeding some of the aquarium's most admired residents. Stingray, sea turtle and shark feeds are available, the latter of which gives participants the chance to feed the aquarium's two zebra sharks (based on the animals' behavior) and observe as its larger sharks are fed by professional aquarists. Additional fees apply.

Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden And Dolphin Habitat (Credit, Heather Turk)

Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden And Dolphin Habitat
The Mirage
3400 Las Vegas Blvd. S.
Las Vegas, NV 89109
(702) 791-7188
www.miragehabitat.com

Home to more than 30 endangered and majestic animals—including three white lion cubs—Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden & Dolphin Habitat is one of the Strip's wildest attractions. Not only can guests view such magnificent animals as lions, tigers, leopards and dolphins up close, but they can also learn more about the charismatic creatures during a one-hour guided VIP Tour that takes visitors behind the scenes. Guests can also interact with the habitat's Atlantic bottlenose dolphins during its popular Trainer for a Day program or collaborate with one of the mammals during a unique Painting with the Dolphins experience. Although additional fees apply for the VIP Tour, Trainer for a Day program and Painting with the Dolphins experience, the experiences they offer are truly priceless.

One of the Strip's most beloved free attractions, the Wildlife Habitat at Flamingo Las Vegas features approximately 70 birds, including Chilean flamingos, California brown pelicans, two species of swans, sacred ibis, 10 species of ducks and a macaw. Additionally, the habitat is home to hundreds of freshwater fish, including Japanese koi, white sturgeon, grass carp and albino channel catfish, and around a dozen pond turtles. Guests can watch the pelicans being fed daily at 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. and ask staff members questions about the birds, which were found in a harbor in California and so badly damaged by nets, fishing lines and hooks that they couldn't fly. The resort adopted the birds and has rescued several of the habitat's other residents as well, including seven sturgeon that were originally on their way to a restaurant. Flamingo feedings are held daily, too, and brochures are available to educate guests on the habitat's many feathered and finned inhabitants when staff members aren't around.

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