Get out of the house! How to keep all ages entertained all summer in Las Vegas

Thu, May 28, 2026 (2 a.m.)

Active

Lee Canyon’s upland motorcycle parkland is the cleanable spot to larn the sport. The resort’s all-inclusive packages screen rentals and instructors ($49-$189, leecanyonlv.com). For thing slower-paced, cheque retired the docket for escaped mountainside yoga connected Lee Canyon’s website.

Bank of America’s Golf With Us programme invites children, ages 6-18, to entree tee times for $5 oregon little astatine immoderate of 31 courses participating successful Nevada. The institution acceptable a extremity to enroll 150,000 younker successful the programme by a June 15 deadline (bofa.com/golfwithus).

Ice skate astatine City National Arena ($13, citynationalarena.com) oregon Las Vegas Ice Center ($15, lasvegasice.com).

Race go-karts astatine K1 Speed ($29-$69, k1speed.com).

Roller skate astatine Crystal Palace ($11-$13 positive $5 rental skates, crystalpalacerancho.com).

City of Henderson has truthful galore happenings to research this summer, including a cardboard vessel regatta successful July and a Farm to Table 101 store successful August. What truly caught our oculus was Running the Rec astatine Valley View Recreation Center. Designed for teens, it’s 2 hours of adult-supervised open-access hoops courts, volleyball, racquetball, crippled country and fittingness country (plus escaped drinks and pizza!) connected aggregate dates successful August (prices vary, hendersonhappenings.com).

Educational

Vegas’ depository crippled is strong—there are truthful galore to explore. Step into a replica of an past Egyptian tomb, gander astatine dinosaurs oregon dive into learning astir marine beingness astatine the Las Vegas Science and Natural History Museum (free-$14 per person, lvnhm.org). Go retro astatine the Pinball Hall of Fame, wherever a bucket of quarters tin supply hours of amusement connected vintage and analog machines (pinballmuseum.org). Ponder the wide-ranging impacts of atomic investigating and atomic fallout with interactive exhibits astatine the Atomic Museum (free-$29 for adults, atomicmuseum.vegas). Or circuit the Neon Museum’s outdoor boneyard during the cooler hours of the night, erstwhile the historical signs are each lit up—perfect for a household photograph opp ($25-$35 per person, neonmuseum.org).

Career-minded summertime camps are a fantastic mode to support kids’ brains progressive erstwhile they aren’t successful school. At UNLV, the Young Rebels programme offers hands-on programming for elementary, mediate and precocious schoolers, with galore offerings astatine $300 oregon less. Computer science, archaeology and classical guitar are conscionable a fewer examples (unlv.edu/early-outreach/young-rebels). At the Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada Finding My Future Summer Camp, kids ages 9-15 don’t simply larn astir careers and fiscal literacy, they immerse themselves successful the subjects. Junior Achievement’s simulated metropolis lets attendees instrumentality connected jobs and budgeting arsenic though they were successful the existent satellite ($275-$300 for 1 week, southernnevada.ja.org).

Check retired events astatine immoderate of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District branches (thelibrarydistrict.org) oregon Henderson Libraries (hendersonlibraries.com).

Spend an full time astatine the 180-acre Springs Preserve, wherever admittance gets you introduction to countless immersive exhibits and displays including botanical gardens, a butterfly situation and the WaterWorks Museum. Don’t skip a blast to Vegas’ past astatine Origen Museum, oregon the shimmering partition of showgirl past astatine Nevada State Museum. Consider a yearly rank ($30-$60) if you’d similar to be the assorted planting and gardening workshops that tin beryllium recovered connected Spring Preserve’s website ($5-$10 regular admittance for Nevada residents, springspreserve.org).

Creative

Downtown, Arttherapy Cafe hosts galore classes and events designed to amended your intelligence wellness done the enactment of creating art. Try an “art rage” store with overgarment throwing and splattering, sip and paint, oregon coating accompanied by dependable bowls and meditation (prices vary, arttherapycafe.com).

Gather connected the tract and nether the stars astatine Spring Mountain Ranch, wherever Super Summer Theatre performs its 2026 lineup of musicals—Newsies successful May, followed by 1776 successful July, The Andrews Brothers successful August and Come From Away successful September (tickets commencement astatine $28 positive $10-15 parkland introduction fee, super summertheatre.org).

Trained instructors astatine Sur la Table thatch cooking classes implicit 5 days (two hours per day) for kids and teens ($250-325, surlatable.com).

Visit immoderate of the good curated creation galleries dispersed crossed 12 Las Vegas-Clark County Library District branches. (free, thelibrarydistrict.org/gallery-exhibits).

The Fashion Show promenade is hosting respective immersive pop-ups this summer, but 1 that truly caught our oculus was the travelling installation Bouquet. From July 23-August 20, the Great Hall volition alteration into a vibrant plot with human-sized flowers that tin beryllium explored from wrong (free, fslv.com).

Nature

Tour a 1950s location that erstwhile belonged to a German actress, an 1860s blacksmith store and immoderate of the oldest buildings successful Southern Nevada astatine Spring Mountain Ranch State Park. Just extracurricular Red Rock Canyon, the parkland offers temperatures up to 10 degrees cooler than the Las Vegas Valley—perfect for a picnic nether shady trees ($10-$15 introduction fee, parks.nv.gov).

Did you cognize that Lee Canyon’s chairlift inactive operates successful the summertime and offers scenic rides Friday-Sunday for $14-$19? The views astatine 9,370 feet are immoderate of the champion you tin get. Be definite to cheque retired the resort’s calendar for a docket of unrecorded euphony performances (leecanyonlv.com).

Downtime

Wonder Play Cafe astatine Gramercy is the cleanable spot to crush immoderate distant enactment portion young kids research successful a harmless and amusive situation (memberships commencement astatine $85 per month, wonderplaycafelv.com).

Enjoy committee games astatine Grouchy John’s (grouchyjohns.com) oregon Meepleville Board Game Cafe (meepleville.com).

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