Red Rock visitor center closed Wednesday for repairs
The popular visitor center at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area is getting its floors resealed.
The visitor center will be closed Wednesday while the work is completed.
A temporary contact station and exhibit space has been set up outside the visitor center in the meantime.
Red Rock Canyon is located 17 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip and is visited by more than 1 million people each year.
The Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior are dropping entrance fees during Martin Luther King Jr.'s weekend.
That means admission is free to Red Rock, Lake Mead, Death Valley and other national parks Saturday through Monday.
They also will waive recreation-related fees for visitors to the National System of Public Lands on Get Outdoors Day (June 9), National Public Lands Day (Sept. 29) and Veteran's Day weekend (Nov. 10 to 12). Other fees, such as overnight camping, cabin rentals and group day use, will remain in effect.
