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the generators to ll 15 average-size swimming pools (20,000 gallons each) each second. Hoover Dam provides water to more than 23 million people in Arizona, Nevada, California and Mexico.
Hoover Dam is located 8 miles from Boulder City and 30 miles from Las Vegas on US Highway 93, right at the Nevada-Arizona border. The local Hoover Dam Visitors’ Center opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. (Paci c Time) daily, except for Thanksgiving & Christmas.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
America’s Most Diverse National Recreation Area
Practically right in Boulder City’s backyard, the sprawling Lake Mead National Recreation Area currently hosts 6.3 million visitors annually. This tremendous number of visitors makes it the fth most visited National Recreation Area in the United States.
Boat, hike, cycle, camp, sh and hunt at America’s most diverse national recreation area. With striking landscapes and brilliant blue waters, this year-round playground spreads across 1.5 million acres of mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes. See the Hoover Dam from the waters of Lake Mead or nd solitude in one of the park’s nine wilderness areas.
Lake Mead is impressive: it’s 1.5 million acres, 110 miles long when the lake is full, 550 miles of shoreline, around 500 feet at greatest depth, 255 square miles of surface, and when lled to capacity, 28 million acre-feet of water, about two years’ ow of the Colorado River.
Boating on Lake Mead
Although much of Lake Mead must be experienced by boat, the
various campgrounds, marinas, lodges, and other facilities clustered around the lake make it possible for non-boaters to enjoy it as well.
There are shaded picnic areas with tables, water, re grills and restrooms located throughout the area. Several paved roads wind through the dramatic desert scenery of Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Towering stark mountains, plateaus, desert basins of cacti and creosote bush, and vertical-walled canyons are among the sights motorists will discover. Short desert hikes lead to stunning vistas and wild places you will never see from a boat or car.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area is a U.S. National Recreation Area operated by the National Park Service. Lake Mead NRA follows the Colorado River corridor from the westernmost boundary of Grand Canyon National Park and extends southward to include parts of Lake Mohave, created by Davis Dam.
The creation of Lake Mead began in 1935, less than a year before Hoover Dam was completed. The area surrounding Lake Mead was established as the Boulder Dam Recreation Area in 1936.
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