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ATTRACTIONS

Joplin is a great vacation spot! It offers visitors plenty of appealing attractions, among the most favorite ones being:

- Route 66 Carousel Park, considered to be Joplin's premier family fun park, featuring dozens of amusement rides, two 18-hole miniature golf courses, multi-speed batting cages, the fastest go karts in the area, water-spraying bumper boats, an exciting indoor arcade, indoor and outdoor birthday party areas, and much, much more.

- Lazer City, another fun place for families in Joplin, offering a 4000 square feet laser tag arena, with black light, fog and heart-pounding music.

- Raycliff Manor Haunted Attraction, a catacomb of nightmares, a macabre maze of horror. This is a scary attraction with high shock factor, terrifying special effects, and illusions that are horrifyingly real.

- Joplin Museum Complex, home to two outstanding educational museums as well as Boomer's good friend, Percy the Cat - the Everett J. Ritchie Tri-State Mineral Museum was founded in 1931 and boasts the world's most extraordinary and unique collection of lead and zinc ore dating back to Joplin's mining days in the late 1800's, while the Dorothea B. Hoover Historical Museum takes you back to Joplin's beginnings as a mining boomtown telling the story of the city's growth and development into Missouri's 4th largest metropolitan area that it is today.

Annual Events

The Boomtown Days represent the premier annual event in Joplin. This fun 3-day celebration offers something for the enjoyment of visitors of all ages, featuring a half marathon, kids activities, a chili cook-off, a 26 game free Arcade, entertaining performances, including fun competitions such as the Bubble Gum Chewing Contest ot the Mom Calling Contest, and much more.