Big mall, normal hours

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- The Mall of America is in Bloomington, Minn., a few yards off Interstate Highway 494, about five minutes west of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Mall admission is free. So is parking. Stores are open from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays (closed Christmas and New Year's Day). The 23 rides in Knott's Camp Snoopy cost $1 to $2.50 and are open the same hours weekdays and Sundays, and until 11 p.m. on

Saturdays. Movie theaters and entertainment areas run past midnight.

The mall has information pillars at each corridor intersection, with maps, indexes and phone service to operators who can field most questions. The main Mall of America number is [phone].