Las Vegas part 1 Red Rock Canyon

On Saturday, August 29th, we drove the RV to Las Vegas to Kings Row Trailer and RV Park.  We spent the afternoon shopping. It was great to go to REI, Total Wine and Whole Foods !  We had to wait until Monday to go to the Visitor Center because of budget they are closed on the weekends.  When we went on Monday they did give us some good information.

Note:  We stayed in Las Vegas for 10 nights and went to the strip multiple times. We rested, blogged, caught up on shopping and goofed off. I am going to divide our Las Vegas blog posts into 4 posts: Red Rock Canyon, Hoover Dam. Vegas by day and Vegas by night.

We went to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area on Sept 2.  They have a wonderful visitor center geared towards teaching children about the dessert, the canyon and the animals that live there.  They have a large dessert tortoise habitat with 7 tortoises.  We got to see two of them.  They tend to hide after they are fed to get out of the sun.  The park is a 13 mile one way loop around the canyon with overlooks and hikes.  We took a few of the short hikes.  We saw many bicyclists doing the loop.

 Next to Red Rock Canyon there is another area called Red Springs.  It is a board walk around local ecosystems.  The boardwalk was being redone but we were still able to get over to see the petroglyphs.

Hiding from the sun

To protect those not in the habitat

Petroglyphs at Red Rock

Wayne on one of our hikes

Red Springs Petroglyphs