Things to Do in Las Vegas in July

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Located in Clark County, Las Vegas is home to year-round entertainment and attractions. Guests can go hiking through Red Rock Canyon or along Lake Mead or visit a multitude of city attractions. Visitors to the area can go on a Grand Canyon Helicopter Tour or a Colorado River Raft Tour, see a Cirque du Soleil performance, visit the Atomic Testing Museum or Mystery Adventures, which allows visitors to become amateur crime scene investigators for a day.

Lied Discovery Children's Museum

Take a family visit to the Lied Discovery Children's Museum, which offers more than 100 interactive activities in science, art, nature, music, travel and the humanities. Exhibits include the It's Your Choice healthy eating exhibit, the Desert Discovery exhibit and the Green Village that encourages children to become active participants in helping the environment. Visitors can learn to make bubbles, play dress up, work on computers, play basketball, make a hurricane and launch a tennis ball rocket. The museum also organizes a variety of educational and fun programs, such as paper marigold crafts, puppets, painting and cultural exploration.

The Siegfried and Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat is a research and education facility. It is home to animals that include black panthers, golden tiger, white tigers, leopards and white lions, and the dolphin habitat houses bottlenose dolphins in a 2.5 million gallon naturalistic aquarium. For visitors at least 13 years of age, the dolphin habitat offers its unique trainer for a day program, where visitors have the opportunity to get in the water to feed, play and swim with the dolphins and learn training techniques. The program is a full-day program that includes a freshly prepared breakfast and three-course lunch.

Visit the 180-acre cultural Springs Preserve with on-site museums and galleries, regular concerts, a botanical garden and hiking trail. Visitors can wander through the preserve's animal exhibits that include desert iguanas, gray fox, gila monsters, bats and a multitude of creepy crawlers. The botanical garden is full of cacti, roses, herbs, fruits and vegetables, and offers regular cooking and gardening demonstrations. Throughout the preserve's trails, visitors can see historic sites, including a semi-subterranean home owned by one of the first African Americans to own land in Las Vegas, and ancient pithouses. The Big Springs Gallery offers a collection of works created by local artists.