Lake Mead/Hoover Dam
Park rangers are anticipating more than 100,000 visitors at Lake Mead National Recreation Area this Fourth of July weekend.
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As summer begins and the Las Vegas Valley starts its months-long endeavor into triple-digit temperatures, it’s important to remember that one of the National Park Service’s crown jewels is located in the backyard of Boulder City.
An artist has won almost $1.35 million in a lawsuit over a sculpture commemorating workers who were paid $5 per day to risk their lives during the construction of Hoover Dam.
The Historic Railroad Trail at Lake Mead National Recreation Area was recently designated as a national trail by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Lake Mead is expected to shrink low enough by January 2017 to trigger the first federal shortage declaration on the Colorado River, according to a bleak new projection from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
With any large body of water comes questions of what truly lies beneath its surface, and that applies to Lake Mead, too.
The drought that has plagued Lake Mead for years has driven the nation’s largest man-made reservoir to a record low.
From barren wasteland once filled with trees, to the sharp transition in rain patterns, climate change continues to harm the world in a variety of ways.
After nearly a decade of revisions and input from the public, the National Park Service completed its wilderness management plan for the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Lake Mead’s water level is the highest it’s been since last May. Still, officials are reluctant to embrace the good news for too long.
From the time she was growing up in El Cajon, Calif., Erin Eichenberg has been fascinated with archaeology.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area officials have proposed raising fees, in some cases doubling them, and are seeking public comments about the changes.
The name crops up in several prominent places at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, from its busiest boat harbor to the road and the wash leading down to it. There is even a park in Boulder City, popular among grazing bighorn sheep, that bears the Hemenway name.