Floyd Lamb State Park in Las Vegas

Las Vegas is the city where most of the people dream that their luck will change. Most people come here for the casinos. Another bunch comes only to get a glimpse of this fairytale city. Still this amazing city can sometimes be tiring. So what do you usually do when you need to get away from the city? You find a tree, an oasis of green, a park. In Las Vegas in particular you must find Floyd Lamb State Park.

The Floyd Lamb State Park is filled with picnic areas and barbecues where you can eat a healthy brunch with your loved ones. The parks also offers volleyball and horseshoe facilities. It is located northwest of Las Vegas.

If you are passionate about paleontology you can find your way to the Tule Springs Ranch. It is know to be the best example of Pleistocene paleontologic site in Western North America. Fossils of bison, horses, camels, giant sloth, mammoths which ones roamed the Tule Springs area can be found in this paleontologic site.

In recent history this area, Tule Springs, was used as a watering hole for the prospectors who wandered across the Nevada desert. John Herbert Nay filed water rights in 1916. This made him the first non-Indian to file for such rights. Along the years he acquired more property at the Tule Springs area and afterwards he built himself a storage room and a blacksmith shop.

After almost thirty years of living in these parts Nay moved to California in 1928. Buy doing so he sold his interest in the farm. Until a prospector by the name of Jacob Goumond purchased the land the property remained vacant. He bought the place so that he would have a private retreat for him and his friends. Jacob was an intelligent man and when Nevada changed the divorce laws he profited by setting up a dude ranch for the prospective divorcees. His guests waited out for six moths. This was the minimum waiting period as residency requirement for the divorce. This idea soon turned out to be a brilliant and profitable business. The ranch shortly became a resort area for the movie stars which wanted a divorce. In 1954 Goumond died and his granddaughter inherited the ranch which she later sold to a group of businessmen who formed the Tule Springs Investment Company. The ranched was leased for ten years when the city of Las Vegas bought it.

A piece of the city's history, the park is great for spending the weekends. After a week of taking money from the casinos or just visiting the city take the weekend off and go for a walk in the park. There is nothing which can strengthen you or clear your mind better and prepare you for the following week than a day in a place like Floyd Lamb State Park. Once you did this you will surely be ready for another week of entertainment and fun in the Sin City.