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I-11 / US 93 / US 93 Bus. north (Boulder City Parkway) / Goldstrike Canyon Road – Las Vegas, Kingman, Boulder City, Lake Mead: Partial dumbbell interchange; western terminus; I-11 exit 2; US 93 Bus. north is former US 93 north/US 466 west: 1.35: 2.17: Hoover Dam security checkpoint
Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead and is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California.
Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States.It is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona, 24 mi (39 km) east of Las Vegas.
SR 172 (Hoover Dam Access Road) / I-11 / US 93 north / Goldstrike Canyon Road – Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, Boulder City: Interchange northbound, roundabout southbound; I-11 exit 2; SR 172 east is former US 93 south/US 466 east: 1.4: 2.3: Lakeshore Road: To Lake Mead: Boulder City: 7.0: 11.3: Veterans Memorial Drive – Boulder City Municipal Airport
A highway segment opened on October 19, 2010, in the area of Hoover Dam; [18] the Hoover Dam Bypass replaces a segment of US 93 over the dam that had been closed to truck traffic due to security concerns since the September 11 attacks in 2001. [19] The bypass crosses the Colorado River on a bridge downstream of the dam.
On this day 80 years ago, a crowd of 20,000 people gathered in Nevada to watch President Franklin Delano Roosevelt commemorate the completion of the Hoover Dam. %shareLinks-quote="The work that ...
A 19-mile (31 km) concurrency with U.S. Route 95 between Las Vegas and Alunite was added in 1940, when that highway was extended through southern Nevada along State Route 5. [ 10 ] The first major shift of US 93 occurred in 1967, when a new highway connection was completed between US 91 (now I-15) and a point 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Glendale.
In the early 1980s, Lake Mead, the Hoover Dam's reservoir, was nearing its full capacity of 9.3 trillion gallons of water. In 2022, ... told The Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2019.