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Gold Strike Hot Springs, also known as Goldstrike Hot Springs, Nevada Hot Springs and Gold Strike Canyon Hot Springs are a group of hot springs near Hoover Dam on the Arizona/Nevada border near historic Boulder City. [1] They are in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Lake Havasu (/ ˈ h ɑː v ə s uː /) is a large reservoir formed by Parker Dam on the Colorado River, on the border between San Bernardino County, California, and Mohave County, Arizona. Lake Havasu City sits on the Arizonan side of the lake with its Californian counterpart of Havasu Lake directly across the lake.
The name appeared as "Zzyzx Springs" in Dmitri Borgmann's 1967 book Beyond Language.In 1977, Borgman noted his source as being "an old, undated map of San Bernardino County published by the Automobile Club of Southern California" and repeated his description of the settlement as being "a hydrologic feature and privately owned spa in San Bernardino County, California, about 8.5 miles south of ...
At Needles, California the Colorado is crossed by Interstate 40; shortly downstream it passes the Topock Marsh in Topock Gorge and widens into Lake Havasu, formed by Parker Dam. Lake Havasu provides recreation as well as the home of the retired U.K. London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, now the New London Bridge.
Lake Havasu, seen on a cooler evening in the spring of 2022, was under an excessive heat warning on July 5, when a 4-month-old girl died after a boating excursion. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Lake Havasu City has a hot desert climate , with extremely hot summers, mild winters, and very little rainfall. The hottest temperature in Arizona was recorded in Havasu City. Lake Havasu City is a very hot city, even by Arizona standards; here, the highest temperature ever recorded in the state, 128 °F (53 °C), was set on June 29, 1994. [ 19 ]
The springs discharge 290 acre-feet of water per year. [1] The springs are known as Ha’ Kamwe’ in Paipai language by the Hualapai Native American tribe who consider them sacred. [2] The tribe occupy the Cholla Canyon Ranch near Wikieup, Arizona [3] from where they visit the springs. [2]
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Arizona.There are 47 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Arizona, counting Hoover Dam that spans from Nevada and is listed in Nevada by the National Park Service (NPS), and Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites, which is listed by the NPS in Arizona, and overlaps into California.