Or, maybe just don’t look down.Ĭost: Tickets for both rides start at $10.00 for adults. There’s also a bar and outdoor lounge at the base of the ride, and you can bring your drinks on board with you, which will come in handy as liquid courage for those moments when your feet are dangling 130 above the ground. This “open-air balloon ride”-there is a balloon, yes, but the ride is all mechanical-takes riders over 130 up into the air and rotates several times for 360-degree views of the Strip and the surrounding Las Vegas Valley. It’s one of the newer attractions at AREA 15. Just outside the main entry to AREA 15, you’ll find LIFTOFF, a towering metal sculpture that doubles as a slow-moving observation tower-style ride. This is a great way to get a bird’s-eye-view of this sensory-overload space and see all the artwork inside from a different perspective. On this ride, you’ll “hang glide” down The Spine, the “nerve center” of AREA 15, soaring over the 23-foot-tall digital maple tree with 5,000 individually programmed LED lights that is the centerpiece of Oddwood Bar past the otherworldly supermarket Omega Mart and over the bamboo canopy of the Sanctuary Lounge. Visitors can take flight on Haley’s Comet, a zipline that travels around the interior perimeter of AREA 15. LIFTOFF | Photo courtesy of AREA 15ĪREA 15, the 200,000-square-foot psychedelic immersive art and entertainment complex where it’s EDC all year round and where Universal Parks has announced it will build a new year-round “horror experience,” already has a few thrills of its own.

Adventuredome is also home to several smaller amusement park-style thrill rides-the “spinny” kind if you will-including the Inverter, Chaos, and Disk’O.Ĭost: Ride-all-day wristbands are $60 for anyone tall enough to ride the above rides. The other indoor coaster is the Canyon Blaster, the world's only indoor double-loop, double-corkscrew roller coaster featuring back-to-back vertical loops and corkscrews with a double helix finale inside of a pitch-black “mountain.” Both of these coasters offer all the thrills of some of the top-rated coasters at the best theme parks in the country, and it all happens under a glass dome with views of the iconic Las Vegas Strip whipping by as you loop and bank and corkscrew. The showpiece here is El Loco, a steel coaster that packs a powerful punch in a small space featuring a 90-degree drop and two inversions among numerous other twists and turns and drops during which riders will experience a 1.5 vertical-G. But if you like thrill rides, this tucked-away amusement park does not disappoint. Mostly aimed at kids, the Adventuredome has activities like laser tag, rock climbing, bungee jumping, and minigolf, as well as an arcade, midway games, and VR games. SkyJump is a separate ticket and starts at $129.99.Ĭircus Circus, the historic Las Vegas hotel and casino that’s been trying to make family-friendly Sin City happen for 55 years now, is home to the Adventuredome, a 5-acre indoor amusement park featuring 25 rides and attractions.

Multi-ride and single-day unlimited ride packages are available. And if all of that STILL isn’t enough for your thrill-seeking, adrenaline-seeker heart, there’s always the SkyJump, a freefall bungee jump from 829 feet above the ground that holds the Guinness World Record as the highest commercial decelerator descent facility.Ĭost: Single thrill ride tickets start at $20 and include access to the SkyPod observation deck.

X-Scream is like a roller coaster teeter-totter that propels riders head-first 27 feet over the edge of the STRAT at 866 feet in the air, dangling weightlessly before being pulled back to do it all again a few times over. You can retrieve your stomach when you come back down, right before you’re shot back up again. The Big Shot starts at 921 feet above the ground and then shoots riders straight up into the air another 160 feet at 45 miles per hour in a matter of seconds. This one’s definitely not for the faint of heart, but it is fun! By far the best of the bunch, and the only one you can see in action from the ground a mile away, is Insanity, which features a mechanical arm that extends 64 feet out from the side of the tower and dangles riders 866 feet above the ground at a 70-degree angle while spinning in the open air at speeds up to 65 miles per hour, creating forces of 3 G’s. There are three thrill rides at the top of the STRAT: Insanity, X-Scream, and The Big Shot. And at some point, someone decided it would be awesome to add some thrill rides to the observation deck levels some ~900 feet in the air, taking classic amusement park thrill rides to whole new heights.

One of the most iconic buildings in the Las Vegas skyline, the STRAT-the 1,149-foot observation tower formerly known as the Stratosphere-is the tallest building in Las Vegas (and, not for nothing, the tallest freestanding observation tower in the US).

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