Las Vegas
Welcome Sign
Oct. 18, 2010
Description & Accessibility
The welcome sign is located south of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, once there you can walk to the sign but it is a bit further than I expected, we went there in the daytime, the sign is all lite up at night and would have been nice to see after dark. The sign itself is location in a large grassy medium in the center of the highway.
Accessibility: Yes and No, once you get to the Mandalay Bay Hotel I was able to drive my mobility scooter to the sign. One section of the sidewalk as you neared the sign location was a bit ruff as you can see to the left and you had to carefully get the right approach to it with some speed. Hopefully they will fix it.
The sign itself is in a large grassy medium but there is no safe way to get to it from the sidewalk. There is a parking area for cars / buses that can pull off in the center of the highway there, but the traffic is busy and there is no way to safely get to it in a scooter / wheelchair. There is no ramp directly across from it on the sidewalk. You can get a good picture as you see to the left from the sidewalk looking across to the welcome sign.
My wife managed to get across to it but for someone with a mobility disability the best you can get is to view it from the sidewalk unless you arrange for get to it in a vehicle.
By: Donald Kerr