The Hoover Dam, as seen from the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, April 2022. Back in the fall of 2020, I had planned a trip to the Hoover Dam, a structure in the southwestern U.S ...

For $25 round trip, visitors to southern Nevada can get off the Strip and head to Boulder City, a laid-back small town about 30 miles east that’s full of little-known attractions and one huge one.