Virginia City Visitor Center — Attraction in Dayton

Virginia City is such a great place. It takes you back to the old Western days. On weekends the locals dress in period costume. The Bucket of Blood has been owned by the same family for over 80 years and most the time The Comstock Cowboys play there on the weekends. Get there early to get a seat!! It's worth it!! See the amazing views all around, the wild horses and gorgeous mountains! Go into St. Mary in the Mountains Catholic Church if you want to sit by yourself for a moment and look at the beauty inside. The Ponderosa Mine Tour is very intetesting. The cemeteries are so historic and tell of many short lives in that time period. The only negative is the town basically shuts down at 6 p.m. on the weekends except for a few places like Red Dog Saloon and Bucket if Blood and I haven't found a place to really have a good meal. There's a few barbeque places where you eat outside but they close early as well. Great 1$ hotdogs and things like that. Pizza and bar food at Red Dogs too. So many other things to do but it's a MUST to visit if you're...

Barney Fife cops in the town with nothing to do but give out parking tickets for $195. Evidently they voted to charge this absolutely ridiculous amount of money just recently and low and behold the cops are now all over town looking for tiny infractions to raise revenue, praying on tourists struggling to find a parking spot. When I returned to my car the guy next to me who also had a ticket pointed at mine. We both tried to figure out what we had done wrong because it didn't say "No Parking". There was around 12 cars with parking tickets just in that general area. They were also camped out at each end of the town nailing anyone driving in above the 20mph limit which drops well before you get into the town. Total speed trap. This is a tiny town and yet the cops were all over the place looking for any tiny thing a tourist might do wrong. You want to cost the businesses in your town tourism then this is the way to do it. I used to take visiting friends and family to see the town all the time....

Just wanted to say that Virginia City’s public statement of not tolerating racism, following the racist tirade by the Cusack- Miller family at Hot August Nights, is disingenuous at best. The city has condoned blatant political signage since Trump, sells offensive trinkets belittling Black Americans, and gives off a feeling of unease, so much so, that we have stopped going there and don’t recommend it to our guests. If Virginia City’s leaders are serious about portraying VC in a positive light, they had better dig deeper into the not even thinly veiled racism in the town and eradicate it. Virginia City will lose more than Hot August Night income and all the effort over the years to build it up will have...