Attractions planned for Southern Nevada creative — and possibly dangerous

Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak says he’s astonished by the creative — and possibly dangerous — attractions that are in Southern Nevada or are in the development pipeline. Here’s a sampling:

■ Dig This. The attraction at 3012 S. Rancho Drive, near exit 39 of Interstate 15, lets customers drive bulldozers and excavators. A “dig and destroy” group package lets customers drive the vehicles and shoot machine guns for $424.

■ Xpark Vegas. Machine Guns Vegas owner Genghis Cohen wants to build a 16.2-acre adult theme park just north of and across I-15 from SpeedVegas, near Sloan. Plans call for a construction-equipment area where customers would be “allowed to operate heavy equipment such as bulldozers”; a speedboat area with channels ranging between 21 and 43 feet wide; an ATV and dirt bike obstacle course; a 180foot bungee tower; and a shooting range, according to Cohen and county documents.

■ The Edge. At Las Vegas Boulevard and Sunset Road, the site of a nine-hole executive golf course, Australian Josh Kearney says he’ll break ground in April or May on a 130-acre extreme sports park. The attraction would include off-road dirt biking areas, wakeboarding lakes, surfing lakes, an indoor mountain-biking track, indoor skydiving, rock climbing, bungee jumping and zip lines as well as a 15-story, 640-room hotel with a casino, convention space, restaurants and two rooftop swimming pools. ■ Anti-terrorism boot camp. Sisolak said he heard a presentation from someone who wanted to develop an attraction near Searchlight. Under the plan, Sisolak said, participants would learn to rappel from a helicopter, escape from wrist bindings within a secured bunker and ride a motorcycle while shooting a gun. “He claimed there was a huge market for this,” Sisolak said. “Maybe it’s to train to be a bodyguard.”