It’s only about a 50- to 60-minute car ride to the Hoover Dam from Las Vegas. It takes more than half of that time to travel round-trip from the Las Vegas Strip to Downtown Las Vegas, where ...

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.

• Hoover Dam is about 270 miles northwest of Phoenix and about 33 miles southeast of Las Vegas. • To reach the dam from U.S. 93 , take Exit 2 on the Nevada side.

In 2020, I had planned a trip to the Hoover Dam, ... If you’re in Vegas and don’t wish to gamble, try this. At less than $200 per person, it potentially is a lot cheaper.

"If there's no Hoover Dam, I strongly believe there's no Las Vegas," Glennon said. "Because Vegas back then was just a train stop until after the Dam was built, you had a water and an electrical ...