{"id":42521,"date":"2025-01-06T17:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T01:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=42521"},"modified":"2025-01-06T17:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T01:48:26","slug":"vegas-indoor-skydiving-to-close-after-42-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/vegas-indoor-skydiving-to-close-after-42-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Indoor Skydiving to Close After 42 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An enduring but long-struggling Las Vegas attraction, Vegas Indoor Skydiving, is set to close on Jan. 25, 2025.<\/p>\n

The attraction, near the Las Vegas Convention Center, faced a series of burbles in recent years and has now hit terminal velocity, causing the owner to pull the ripcord on the free-flying operation. Vegas Indoor Skydiving was in business for an impressive 42 years before its fall.<\/p>\n

We have never skydived (we’re a “Whuffo,” according to those who have), so our lingo may not slap or be exactly on the fleek here, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n

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Indoor skydiving is just like real skydiving, except its for people who don’t want sky, weather, risk or bragging rights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vegas Indoor Skydiving announced its looming closure on social media, saying, “Over four decades, the facility has welcomed more than 1,000,000 flyers of all ages, from five-year-old daredevils to 103-year-old adventurers. Celebrities such as Tom Hanks, Steve Aoki, Travis Pastrana, Carrie Underwood, Britney Spears and Howie Mandel have taken flight within its walls. The facility also served as a training ground for skydiving students and a springboard for hundreds of employees who went on to become doctors, lawyers, firemen, amazing parents, business owners, and overall extraordinary members of society.”<\/p>\n

That’s right, that Tom Hanks. We are going back and updating our main image for this story accordingly.<\/p>\n

Vegas Indoor Skydiving touts itself as “the first commercial wind tunnel to open in the U.S., inspiring a global phenomenon.”<\/p>\n

We have no idea if any of that is true, but Vegas Indoor Skydiving has undeniably been around a long time.<\/p>\n

As for the future of the place, we’re told the owners of the building and surrounding land (about 13 acres), The Siegel Group, are looking for a new restaurant partner for the space.<\/p>\n

The company has big plans for the site down the road, promising a resort project that will “change the Vegas skyline.”<\/p>\n

As for your skydiving options in Las Vegas, you can always jump out of a perfectly good plane, but there’s another controlled skydive attraction in the works at Neonopolis. This attraction is outside, but provides all the safety and convenience of doing it indoors.<\/p>\n

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Permits have been approved for the skydiving attraction for Crash N Burn at Neonopolis (should open summer 2025). Sorely needed—great venue, no marketing. pic.twitter.com\/QEzy922PK5<\/a><\/p>\n

— Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) November 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n