Planning a trip to Las Vegas and looking to add a notable side trip to your itinerary? A visit to the Hoover Dam is ... power to supply over a million households. The dam also regulates water ...

Laureen and I wandered along with the tour to visit the power plants that make Hoover Dam important to millions living in the Southwest. Over 7 million ... tons each.” Looking north toward ...

The Hoover Dam ... strange-looking, Joshua trees. The Colorado River as seen from the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, April 2022. Carved out by the Colorado River over a span ...

On this day in history, July 7, 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. Over the course of the next five years, more than 21,000 men would work tirelessly to produce what would become the ...

Built over five years during the Great Depression and named after President Herbert Hoover, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River's Black Canyon at the border between Nevada and Arizona.

Like Boulder City, Lake Mead is another direct result of the Hoover Dam. The dam was built to control the water of the Colorado River and the lake provides storage of the diverted and blocked water.

The reservoir which lies across Nevada and Arizona is formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River ... Water levels fluctuate over the years, until 1983, when it reached its highest point.

Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines ...

Even after Wilbur’s proclamation, the dam was referred to in the press by both names, but it was called Hoover in all official documents and congressional appropriations bills. When Hoover lost ...