Adrenaline Mountain does not own or rent dune buggies, and we are not Sun Buggy. We also do not run Polaris RZRs, Honda Talons, quads or ATVs. Saying that plainly up front saves everyone a phone call.
What we do run is a fleet of Can-Am Maverick X3 UTVs on 400 acres of private Mojave Desert, 40 minutes south of the Strip. If the picture in your head is an open-cage machine throwing a rooster tail of dust across the desert with you behind the wheel, that is exactly the experience — just built this decade instead of in 1968.
Same Idea, 50 Years Apart
The original dune buggy was a Volkswagen Beetle floorpan with the body cut away and a fibreglass shell dropped on top. Light, loud, brilliant in soft sand, and almost entirely without safety equipment.
A modern side-by-side keeps the fun and fixes the rest: a full roll cage over both seats, three-point belts, bucket seats, long-travel suspension and a turbocharged engine, plus air-pumper helmets that feed you filtered air and an intercom so you can actually talk to the person next to you.
The other practical difference is terrain. A buggy is a sand machine. Our park is Mojave Desert — rock, gravel, wash beds, climbs and canyon switchbacks — where a 72-inch-wide Maverick has the stance and travel to be quick and stable, and a buggy would be out of its element.
More on the machine itself on the Can-Am Maverick page.
What the Day Looks Like
The free shuttle collects you from your Strip or Downtown hotel — six departures a day, about 40 minutes each way, no rental car and no desert navigation. At the park you check in, get a helmet and intercom fitted, and take a safety briefing before your guide leads the group out.
You get 60 minutes of trail time on land nobody else is riding that day, with a driver swap halfway so both people in the vehicle get to drive. Budget 3 to 4 hours door to door. Add machine gun shooting or a monster truck drive on the same visit — it is all one property.
Priced Per Vehicle, Not Per Person
No.
The side-by-side UTV.
There are dune areas in southern Nevada, but our park is not one of them.
No.
You drive.
The two-seat Can-Am Maverick is $329, the four-seat Maverick is $529, and the Jeep Wrangler is $379.
Yes, free round-trip shuttle from every major Las Vegas Strip and Downtown hotel with six daily departures.
