The Helper Museum — Attraction in Helper

I thought this would be some small moderately interesting museum, but no it's huge and awesome. Really interesting history, lots of mining and train equipment, photos, and all sorts of stuff from many decades ago. Four levels to it, bring quarters if you want to run a couple of the old model trains. My kids loved running the trains. Plus the museum is free, although there's a suggested donation and a gift shop where you enter and exit. Very much worth stopping at - I'd say anyone should be able to spend at least an hour here, my family spent 1.5 hours here. Don't miss the big equipment out back around the...

This was a fun place to visit along our journey. Small entry donations are requested upon entering. A lot of history about mining. A small running train model was our children's favorite thing. Get it running for a quarter. There were dinosaur footprints found while mining that are on display. Also lots of antiques on display from old homes. We enjoyed the old phone booth and the old type writer. The best part was all the things available for everyone to touch and feel. There is construction on a large mini railroad which the children loved watching it...

Don't even bother. I drove for an hour and a half to see this place, and was confronted with a "Mask Required" sign. And that information didn't come up in the search result, so it isn't that I ignored it deliberately. It looked like there was one other vehicle that probably had visitors in the museum, so it's not like keeping a distance would be particularly hard. Whoever is administering this place is clearly some kind of squeeing Fauci acolyte. And I definitely can't trust anyone like that to be able to give me good information, be it historical or...