Oatman Mining Camp & Burros: Historic Route 66 Tour from Laughlin

Recommended by 97% of travelers

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Kingman, USA

Great choice

5+ bookings last month.

5 to 7 hours (approx.)
Pickup offered
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

Why travelers loved this

4.9

· Richard_B ·

Feb 2026

First and foremost our tour guide, Brandon, was great. He was informative, personable, and truly took pride in his job. Will request him on future tours. Next comes the scenery. The mountains are beautiful, the stops were nice, and the locals are all very friendly. Can’t wait to book another trip.

· Debi_C ·

Feb 2026

It was absolutely amazing!! Very informational, and playing with the donkeys was just magical! Our tour guide was great!

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Overview

Experience old Route 66 with a hassle-free guided tour from the Kingman, Arizona, area to Oatman, pickup and drop-off included. Discover the history of America’s iconic road at the Powerhouse Visitors Center/Arizona Route 66 Museum, visit the 1920s-era Cool Springs camp, experience the mining town of Oatman and its adorable burros (donkeys), and see epic views of three states.

Drive down historic Route 66 with a knowledgeable guide
Visit Powerhouse Visitors Center/Arizona Route 66 Museum, Cool Springs service station, Route 66 Rock Shop, and Sitgreaves’ Pass
Tour Oatman mining town and see the High Noon shootout show
Maximum of 13 travelers with pickup and drop-off included

What's Included

All Fees and Taxes
Air-conditioned vehicle
Bottled water
Hand Sanitizer

Lunch
Snacks
Gratuity
Museums Admission

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

Pickup details

Minimum required for tour 2 guests. Private & small group tours. This tour is not from Las Vegas. Please notify us of the pickup location at the time of booking. Hotel pickup is in valet or South Tower Entrance. We confirm tours 1-2 days before the event. Times may vary. Subject to availability

Operating hours
.8:00 am

Itinerary

Historic Route 66 Museum

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Cool Springs Station

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Oatman Ghost Town

2 hours • Admission Ticket Free

Sitgreaves Pass

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Golden Valley

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible

Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 13 travelers

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Reviews

4.9

based on 110 reviews

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Great day trip, many...

Debby_L, Mar 2026

Great day trip, many sites to see that may otherwise be missed. Will our guide was great and full of knowledge about the sites we seen and stood we made.

Awesome Oatman tour

Richard_B, Feb 2026

Oatman f3om Laughlin

Renee_H, Feb 2026

Great trip start to finish. Very likely to use them again in future visits may e even same tour or . The description is right on!!

It was absolutely...

Debi_C, Feb 2026

It was absolutely amazing!! Very informational, and playing with the donkeys was just magical! Our tour guide was great!

Nice ride

Carrie_H, Nov 2025

Ed was a wonderful driver and had a lot of knowledge of the area.very personable there was only 2 of us but we had a lot of fun we even had Ed laughing

Response from Host, Jan 2026

Thank you for sharing your experience with us. We’re so glad to hear that Ed made your tour both informative and fun. Small groups often make for the best memories, and it sounds like you all had a great time together. We appreciate your kind words and hope to welcome you on another adventure soon.

Oatman Mining Tour

skinnypojenny, Oct 2025

The Oatman Mining was so good. So many stores and donkeys roaming free, The donkeys are so cute. We got caught in a flash flood the road was washed away. The driver kept us informed on when we could leave the area and head back to Laughlin. On the way back the driver took his time. He was wonderful and so was Oatman.

Thank you. Oatman Tour was a highlight of our Arizona experience.

Judy_S, May 2025

What a delightful experience! Sarge was our guide and he was fun to be with careful driving and allowed my fear of heights change the itinerary so we had more time in Oatman. I would NOT have wanted to find Oatman by myself nor parking although our day was pretty quiet I was told. We enjoyed burro walking the streets, even got a safe picture with my husband, found fun Christmas gifts to take back home and store for the holiday. The Saloon was closed for the day post big motorcycle's annual event...probably had to go food shopping, but we found another down the street and they were love and we were musically entertained. The gun fight was fun and all for a good cause.

Response from Host, Jun 2025

Thank you for the wonderful review! We're so glad to hear the Oatman Tour became a highlight of your Arizona adventure. It’s heartening that Sarge was able to adapt the itinerary with care and make the day both fun and comfortable for you. Sounds like you found the perfect blend of quirky charm, festive shopping, and a touch of Old West flair—burros, gunfights, and all! We appreciate you sharing those special moments, and we hope your Christmas gifts bring smiles and fond memories when the holidays roll around. 🎁🐴🎶

Love it and highly recommend

Laina_F, Jul 2024

We loved this trip! I went with my sister and it turned out to be only us on the tour. Our guy Brandon was great fun and full of information about the places we visited. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone. Kingman and Oatman we great places to visit and it nice break from the Las Vegas Strip

Response from Host, Jun 2025

Thank you so much for the lovely review—and apologies for the late reply! We’re thrilled you and your sister had such a great time exploring with Brandon. Getting a private tour really makes it special, and we’re glad he brought both fun and insight to the day. Kingman and Oatman do make for a perfect escape from the Strip, offering a taste of history and charm that’s hard to beat. Thanks again for the warm recommendation!

Oatman was great!

Anonymous, Jun 2024

Oatman was really fun. We really liked the gun fight. We also saw alot of beautiful scenery on the drive to oatman! We also learned a lot about the area. It was a great day.

Response from Host, Jun 2025

Sorry for the belated reply! I'm so glad to hear you had a great time in Oatman. The gunfight is always a highlight—such a fun throwback to the Old West! And that scenic drive really is something special. It sounds like you made the most of the day and came away with some great memories and local knowledge. Thanks for sharing!

We were not sure about...

Michael_L, Jun 2024

We were not sure about this when I booked. However it was absolutely amazing and hot. Our tour guide was excellent !

Response from Host, Jun 2024

Thank you for sharing your experience! We're thrilled you enjoyed the Oatman Mining Camp, Burros, Museums/Scenic RT66 Tour and that our guide impressed you. We aim to exceed expectations and are glad we did so for you. We appreciate your review and hope to welcome your friends and family for another memorable adventure.

Brilliant day trip

Susan_F, Apr 2024

The whole day was just brilliant. Susan the driver was so lovely and funny and really knew her stuff. Would highly recommend A+++

Response from Host, Jun 2024

Susan, Thank you so much for your glowing review! We're thrilled to hear that you had a brilliant day on our Oatman Mining Camp and Route 66 tour. Susan will be delighted to hear that her knowledge and friendly demeanor made your experience enjoyable. At Desert Wonder Tours, we take pride in providing insightful and entertaining tours, and we're delighted that you found Susan's commentary both informative and amusing. Your recommendation means a lot to us, and we truly appreciate the A+++ rating! If you have any friends or family looking to explore the area, we'd love to welcome them aboard for an equally fantastic journey. Thank you once again for choosing us for your day trip adventure. We look forward to seeing you again soon!

Lots of fun

mike_s, Apr 2024

The tour was really nice . Wife and I enjoy are self. Thanks for a good time. I will book another tour with this company. We had all kinds of time to look around on every stop. Saw lets of awesome stuff and the gun fight was cool to. The tour was long but worth it. they pick us up on time at are hotel.

Response from Host, Jun 2024

Mike, hank you for taking the time to share your experience with us! We are thrilled to hear that you and your wife had lots of fun on our Oatman Mining Camp and Route 66 tour. Providing enjoyable and memorable experiences is what we strive for, and we're glad to know we hit the mark. It's great to hear that you appreciated the flexibility and ample time to explore at each stop along the way. We aim to create tours that allow our guests to soak in the sights and experiences fully. The gunfight at Oatman Mining Camp is always a highlight, and we're pleased that you found it cool and enjoyable. Thank you for mentioning our punctual pickup service from your hotel. We understand the importance of starting the day smoothly and on time. We look forward to welcoming you back for another adventure with us soon! If you have any friends or family looking to explore the area, we'd love to show them around as well.

Donkey Town

Gary_O, Apr 2024

It was a beautiful day with Beautiful scenery. We had a great tour guide who explained everything very well and took us to a Cute town Fun to see and pet the donkeys.

Response from Host, Jun 2024

Thank you for sharing your positive experience with us on the Oatman tour. We're delighted to hear that you had a beautiful day enjoying the scenery and exploring the charming town of Oatman with our knowledgeable tour guide. At Desert Wonder Tours, we strive to provide informative and enjoyable experiences for all our guests, and it's wonderful to hear that our guide made your visit memorable by explaining everything in detail. The town of Oatman and its friendly donkeys indeed offer a unique and fun experience, and we're thrilled that you enjoyed interacting with them. We appreciate your kind words and recommendation. Should you have any friends or family looking for a similar adventure, we'd love to welcome them aboard for another memorable tour.

Perfect Tour Experience

Kimberly_C, Jan 2024

Michael from Desert Wonders was a great tour host: showing points of interest on the way there, leaving plenty of time at the museum, took the scenic route to Oatman, introduced me to Walter the burro, and offered a very chill playlist on the way home.

Response from Host, Mar 2024

Sounds like you had a great tour with Michael. A playlist, huh? I'll have to ask him to share that with me. So glad you had a great tour and we appreciate the feedback!

Vegaas and beyond with FRIENDS!

Karen_C, Dec 2023

Our driver, Michael, was terrific! Driving Route 66 out to Kingsman and Outman, the wealth of information. . . wonderful. Can’t thank him enough for a great day!

Response from Host, Mar 2024

Thank you, Karen, for the wonderful review of one of our most popular tours!

Awesome day

Anonymous, Dec 2023

The Oatman mining village with all the donkeys is awesome. We really enjoyed it and the donkeys are too cute. Desert Wonder Tours is an awesome company. The drivers were very nice and gave us lots of fun and interesting information. We had a great time. I can highly recommend Desert Wonder Tours for any future trips. I would book a tour with them in a heartbeat. Thank you for a wonderful day!!!

Response from Host, Mar 2024

Awesome! Aren't the donkeys a treat?! We look forward to providing you with another wonder tour with your next booking!

Amazing Tour

Laura_W, Dec 2023

Our driver, Mike, was amazing. He was able to answer all of our questions, and coul not have been friendlier. I'd give 10 stars if I could.

Response from Host, Mar 2024

Thank you, Laura. Mike is definitely knowledgeable and friendly. So glad you appreciated him!

Must see trip

Gary_Z, Nov 2023

Our tour guide Brandon was awesome. He lives in the Kingman AZ area and was very knowledgeable about the area.

Response from Host, Mar 2024

Thank you for your feedback. Brandon is awesome for sure!

Great tour highly recommended

joanna344, Nov 2023

Great tour with good knowledgeable host. Better in a small group - there were 4 guests in total so plenty of feedback, longer at stops and a more responsive approach. Plenty to see and do on route 66! Felt it was value for money.

Response from Host, Mar 2024

We appreciate your feedback. We agree that smaller groups make for a more personable experience and that's why Desert Wonder Tours prides itself on having small and medium vans that provide that type of experience!

A bit too far away

Gary_J, Nov 2023

The journey was long from vegas for this type of experience. Oatnan town is quaint and quite nice but lots of shops selling similar stuff.

Response from Host, Mar 2024

It is over an hours drive from Las Vegas to the remote old mining town of Oatman. It is quite nice there. Did you see the burros? Thank you for your review.

Exceeded All Expectations

Garry_S, Nov 2023

I visited Las Vegas in October 2023 but wanted to get out of the city and see some of the surrounding areas. There were surprisingly few tours venturing any further than the Grand Canyon but this tour to Oatman via Scene Route 66 looked interesting. Having looked at the itinerary, I expected a few quick stops at gift shops followed by a visit to the tourist trap of Oatman. I couldn't have been more wrong. Our tour guide, Mike, picked us up from our hotel on time at 8am in a comfortable seven seater van before picking up one other passenger from another nearby hotel. As such, it felt like a nice intimate, almost private, tour. Mike explained to us that he lives in Kingman, which was our first real stop except for a quick restroom break at a large gas station. For each tour, Mike drives nearly two hours from Kingman, Arizona to collect passengers in Las Vegas, then back to Kingman for the tour, through Oatman then back to Las Vegas before he returns home to Kingman. The mileage alone makes this tour excellent value for money! The first stop is the Route 66 museum in Kingman, which feels like somebody's personal project. That is to say it has a real authenticity and we spent about half an hour exploring the various exhibits which detail how Route 66 and the railroad brought people and jobs to this small corner of Arizona. An unexpected highlight was the electric vehicle room which had dozens of weird and wonderful electric vehicles from the past fifty years. Yes, they've been around that long. Nevada and this part of Arizona are known for their rich minerals, mined from the mountains. Our second stop was one of the highlights of our entire trip. We pulled off a long desert road next to a trailer, surrounded by tables exhibiting various rocks. The owner of the trailer, Thomas, is exactly the kind of character you hope to meet on these tours. He was proud to show off his collection of various rocks and minerals, which he mines himself in the nearby hills. A real character, it is always a fantastic experience to hear someone speak with a true passion for what they do. Thomas is a real down-to-earth guy who seems to just enjoy showing his finds. Next we drove through, what I believe are, the Black Hills. The views are spectacular, especially if you're on the right side of the vehicle. Mike navigated us expertly up the winding switch-backs as we rose above the desert. Throughout the journey Mike pointed out some of the sights and gave us a little bit of the history of the area, which is genuinely interesting. Oatman, a former mining town, sits within these hills. From the research I'd done prior to the trip, I expected a tourist trap full of expensive gift shops. The promise of a 'cowboy gun fight' on the street was exactly the kind of cheese I don't usually enjoy. I prefer authenticity, even if it means there's less to see and do. Fortunately, I was wrong. Every store in Oatman, including the saloon and restaurant, is a little bit touristy but it took no effort at all to scratch below the surface and get a feel for what the town used to be. The cowboy gun fight was actually a lot of fun and very well enacted by the guys involved. I highly recommend a visit to the Dakota Leather & Gift shop. On the face of it, it's just another gift shop but inside, it's a treasure trove of weird and wonderful artefacts. Genuine old-west bottle openers once used in a saloon, decades ago. Old rotary, bakelite telephones. It is as much a museum as it is a gift shop, except everything is for sale - at reasonable prices too. If you're tired of fridge magnets, keyring and t-shirts, this is the place for you. No visit to a an old-west town is complete without a visit to the local saloon. Prices were, again, surprisingly reasonable. $4 for a pint of draught Budweiser. The same was true of the restaurant across the road. While the town was teeming with tourists, we had a fantastic time here with our only disappointment being that we couldn't stay longer. After Oatman, Mike drove us back to Las Vegas via a different route, passing the town of gambling town Laughlin. The journey back was quiet and comfortable and we were returned to our hotel around 5pm before Mike presumably made his own journey back to Kingman, nearly two hours away. As I said, we had quite low expectations for this tour but figured that we would at least get to see some of the landscape outside Las Vegas. In reality, we had an amazing time. The tour itinerary doesn't do justice to how great a day you'll have. If you have a spare day in Vegas and want to get out of the city, there is no better tour to do.

Response from Host, Nov 2023

What an amazing review, Garry. You perfectly described why Desert Wonder Tours Oatman tour is so worth taking. While it is a long day for our driver guides, the appreciation that our guests show for the Oatman experience is worth the excursion. Thank you for your thorough review that provides great insights for future guests!

Awesome trip!

Leanne_R, Oct 2023

Absolutely loved seeing the donkeys everywhere!!! 😁. Was a really great tour! Had a lot of fun and would go again!

Response from Host, Nov 2023

Leanne, we are so glad you enjoyed our Oatman tour and the donkeys, aren't they great? Thank you so much for the great review!

Enjoyable visit to Oatman Mining Village

Gail_M, Sep 2023

We really enjoyed the burros, the neat shops and the friendly people at Oatman Mining Village. Our tour guide, Mikel, ensured we had plenty of time to visit this little town. I wished there was another restaurant to eat lunch but we found a cute hot dog stand with homemade lemonade. It was a nice break from the Las Vegas Strip to go on this trip. I’ve been booking tours with Viator for a few years and have always been pleased with the tour guides and the places visited.

Response from Host, Nov 2023

Thank you for the nice review. Coming from a seasoned traveler that is indeed high praise!

Great fun in Oatman Arizona.

Jacqueline_G, Jul 2023

Oatman Arizona was my husband's favorite trip while in Vegas. He recently passed away so I brought my granddaughters and my BFF to see what Papa loved. Mike and Bob made sure it was perfect. The gun fight, the burros and the fabulous scenery from Rt 66. We had a great lunch at the Hotel and Saloon. The food was really good and our server Sue was great. We were picked up right on time at our Hotel. I would recommend this excursion to anyone old or young. Thank you Mike and Bob for your knowledge and kindness and super customer service 👍

Loved it

Kim_B, Jun 2023

Our experience was wonderful we really enjoyed Oatman and also really enjoyed the trip through the mountains we learned a lot that we didn't know and our tour guide was wonderful.

Response from Host, Jun 2023

Isn't Oatman a great tour! Thank you for the wonderful review!

Route 66 or Bust

Nancy_T, Jun 2023

Joy was our driver and guide. She was friendly and informative. She lives the area so it was nice to have a local flavor added to our tour. Lots of beautiful views of the desert and mountajns. We never felt rushed on the tour. We drove in a mini van with lots of bottled water available. Small group tours are a great way to explore and Desert Wonder Tours was an excellent adventure.

Response from Host, Jun 2023

Thank you for the great review, Nancy. Joy is our newest driver who is already a pro! We love our small group tours that never, ever herd people like some of the larger companies do!

Best part of our vacation

Suzanne_L, Jun 2023

Such a wonderful piece of history! Best tour guide who really made the trip amazing! This is a must activity for anyone visiting the Las Vegas area!!

Response from Host, Jun 2023

Thank you, Suzanne, for the wonderful review! Our tour guides rock! It is indeed a great change of pace for those in the bustle of Las Vegas!

Enjoyed our tour...

Cheryl_M, May 2023

Enjoyed our tour Michael was very nice. Very knowledgeable about local history. Oatman was interesting. Food was great at the restaurant and the beers were cold at the bar.

Response from Host, Jun 2023

Sounds like you had a pretty great day. Our guest do enjoy the food and the food names in the Oatman restaurant like Donkey ears! Thank you for the nice review!

Amazing!

Catherine_M, May 2023

Michael our guide was amazing! Such a relaxed easy tour! Oatman is so cute! Beautiful country. We had the tour all to ourselves, group of 4. Thanks!

Response from Host, Jun 2023

So glad you enjoyed Michael and Oatman. We love small groups! Thank you for the great review!

Excellent day

Mivevans, May 2023

Micheal our driver was vey good, friendly, helpful and informative. The experience was also very good, a great way to spend the day away from the strip!