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Lake Mead National Recreation Area is a U.S. national recreation area in Southeastern Nevada and Northwestern Arizona.Operated by the National Park Service, Lake Mead NRA follows the Colorado River corridor from the westernmost boundary of Grand Canyon National Park to just north of the cities of Laughlin, Nevada and Bullhead City, Arizona.
Hoover Dam and Lake Mead between Nevada and Arizona. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation was planning the construction of Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) on the Colorado River in the late 1920s and saw the potential for recreation at the scenic area in Nevada and Arizona around the future Lake Mead, to then be the world's largest reservoir. The car was ...
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Lake Mead was established as the Boulder Dam Recreation Area in 1936, administered by the National Park Service. [10] The name was changed to the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in 1947, and Lake Mohave and the Shivwits Plateau were later added to its jurisdiction. [11] Both lakes and the surrounding area offer year-round recreation options.
Spanning 2,344 square miles (6,071 square kilometers) of mountains and desert canyons, the Lake Mead National Recreation Area just outside of Las Vegas draws around 6 million visitors every year.
Katherine Landing (often erroneously referred to as Katherine's Landing or Katherines Landing) is a recreational area located on the Arizona side of the Colorado River and Lake Mohave just north of Bullhead City in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. It is about two miles (3.2 km) upstream from Davis Dam and accessed from Arizona State ...
The Black Canyon Wilderness in the state of Nevada is a 17,220-acre (6,970 ha) wilderness area located in the Dry Lake Watershed along Dry Lake Valley at Black Canyon of the Colorado, west of the Great Basin Divide. It is part of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Immediately to the south is the Eldorado Wilderness, in the El Dorado ...
The Alan Bible Visitor Center is a visitor center located at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. [1] The visitor center features a 20-minute movie about the recreation area. [1] There is also an array of exhibits, a gift shop, and a desert botanical garden. [1] It was completed around 1966. [2]