Visit the Old West at This ‘Haunted’ Saloon Just Outside Las Vegas

As soon as you pass through the weathered, wooden front doors, a sense of history hits you in unison with the aromatic tang of homemade BBQ.

Opened in 1913, this is the oldest bar in Southern Nevada. It sits at 310 W. Spring St. (state Route 161) in Goodsprings, just west of Jean and about a 35-minute drive south of Vegas along Interstate 15. Jessica Girvan/Dreamstime/TNS

By Jason Bracelin Las Vegas Review-Journal

LAS VEGAS—Waylon Jennings is on the jukebox, singing about a good-hearted woman lovin’ her good-timing man as we take a seat at a cherry-wood bar pocked with some of Nevada’s most infamous cigarette burns. “She never complains of the bad times or bad things he’s done,” Jennings’ honeyed yet wizened purr reverberates beneath a tin ceiling. “She just talks about the good times they’ve had and all the good times to come.”