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The cornerstone of the park is the 10,000-acre (16 sq mi; 40 km 2), Lake Pleasant, one of the important artificial reservoirs surrounding the Phoenix metropolitan area. Created by the Maricopa Water District's Carl Pleasant Dam, which was finished in 1927, and upon completion, was the largest multi-arch dam in the world.
It was this firm that organized the private financing for construction of the dam for the water reclamation project that creates Lake Pleasant. [2] The intended Waddell town site was laid out by Donald W. Waddell in 1935, on property he owned on the northeast corner of Waddell Road and Cotton Lane (Section 12, T3N, R2W, G&SRB&M). [ 3 ]
The Old Waddell Dam approximately halfway submerged under rising waters of the new reservoir, circa 1992. First referred to as the Frogs Tank Dam, the original Waddell Dam was the ambition of local businessmen who wanted to develop a project that used the Agua Fria for the irrigation of around 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) of land.
It serves Lake Pleasant Regional Park and serves as a northern bypass around the often congested stretches of US 60 through the northwest suburbs of the Phoenix metropolitan area. From end to end, it is 30.4 miles (48.9 km) long. The Carefree Highway is the inspiration for the 1974 Gordon Lightfoot song of the same name. [2]
Included in the southern part of Black Canyon City is the community of Rock Springs. [4] It is served by Interstate 17, which bisects the city. I-17 is the main north-south freeway between Phoenix and Flagstaff. The Agua Fria river runs right through the center of Black Canyon City and the river empties into Lake Pleasant to the southwest.
Indian Mesa is located in the Lake Pleasant Regional Park area which has an area of 10,000 acres (40 km 2 or 15.6 mi 2).The lake is one of the most important artificial reservoirs surrounding the Phoenix metropolitan area and is filled by the Agua Fria River.
Pleasant Valley Airport (ICAO: P48) was a privately owned public-use airport located in Peoria, in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. [1] The airport long since serviced small aircraft into the Lake Pleasant Regional Park area, however, in 2022 it was closed due to the lease for the land (on state Trust Land) not being renewed. [2]
Lake Pleasant may refer to a location in the United States: Lake Pleasant Regional Park, park in Arizona containing a lake of the same name Lake Pleasant Camp; Lake Pleasant, Massachusetts, a village; Lake Pleasant Township, Red Lake County, Minnesota; Lake Pleasant, New York, a town Lake Pleasant (Hamilton County, New York), a lake