Hoover Dam as a tourist attraction
... located on the borders of Nevada and Arizona, is a principal source of flood control, irrigation and electrical power in the Southwest. Hoover Dam was for many years the largest dam in the world. It is now also one of the most interesting attractions in the west.
The Hoover Dam is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Las Vegas. It is located in the Black Canyon on the Colorado River, about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas.
The Hoover Dam was completed in 1936 and is now a National Historic Landmark. The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam, 726 feet high and 1,244 feet long.
It has a generating capacity of 2,074 megawatts. The Hoover Dam is one of the world's largest hydroelectric power plants.
The Hoover Dam is open to the public for tours. Visitors can walk across the top of the dam, or take a guided tour of the power plant.
There are also restaurants and gift shops at the Hoover Dam.
The Hoover Dam is a popular destination for luxury hotels in Las Vegas.
The hotels offer shuttle service to the dam, and many of them have views of the dam from their rooms.
If you drive to Hoover Dam from the Nevada side there is a build up as you get toward the dam by the narrow winding road which takes you down to the dam site. Dark, rocky canyon walls that angle sharply to the bottom of Black Canyon face you as you make hairpin turns along the canyon walls of the Nevada side down to Hoover Dam.
An entirely different sight confronts you if you approach Hoover Dam from the Arizona side. You see the back of Hoover Dam and its intake towers. Currently this is a pretty good time to see them because the water level is so far down. In the past, as we see on the left from 1999, the water almost completely covered them.
Here, I will try to give you an impression of what it looks like around Hoover Dam, a bit of information and a personal perspective. We try to use the photos taken through the last 5 years to show the effects of the current drought. In February 2002 we were invited by Hoover Dam management to take the tour and as many photos as we wanted.
The results of that trip are on almost all the pages particularly the Visitors Center and 'Inside Hoover Dam'. Thank you. We try to make this as interesting for you as it is for us.
Popular destinations
Las Vegas
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