Hoover Dam, USA

Hoover Dam - On 15th July 2012, while returning from Las Vegas to our base in Phoenix, we visited the Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam as it was named after US Ex President Herbert Hoover. This Dam was constructed between year 1931 to 1936 on Colorado River at Black Canyon. This Dam helps control the flood, provides irrigation water and also produces and supplies hydroelectric power to   Nevada, Arizona, and California.

Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, located near Boulder city, 40kms south east of Las Vegas. This is a major tourist attraction especially for the people who visit Las Vegas. Interesting fact of this dam is, this dam connects Nevada and Arizona State; that means, one side of the dam is Nevada State and other side is Arizona, the border cuts across the Dam and served as Colorado River crossing for US Route 93 until a separate bypass is constructed.

The new, one of the highest and longest arched concrete bridge across the river is a new, 4-lane segment of US Highway 93 about 4 miles long. It is perched 890 feet above the turquoise Colorado River, wedged between rock cliffs that form Black Canyon, with fantastic views of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. This bridge also provides a pedestrian walkway from here, we can look straight down through the railing at the rocks, river far below.

We spent about 2 hours here walking across the walk way, driving over the Dam and enjoying the view of lake Mead.

Have a Aerial view of Dam