Posts Tagged Hoover Dam

It’s the perfect time of year in Vegas, where the weather is just right for getting outdoors to appreciate the stunning landscape that envelops the Las Vegas Valley. There are several ways to enjoy your time outside and we’ve outlined three of the best plus we’ve provided an amped up version of each tour to really add a Las Vegas-flare to things.

Hoover Dam used enough concrete to build a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York (not the one on the Las Vegas Strip), spawned an entire city (Boulder City) to house 5,000 dam workers and as the largest project of the time it is one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World.

As the many workers that keep Hoover Dam a highly-sought after tourist attraction would say, it is worth the Dam trip from the rows of blackjack tables and bars on the Las Vegas Strip.

The running joke in Las Vegas is that we have no history because everything has been imploded. The Aladdin, Sands, Dunes, Stardust, Hacienda, El Rancho, Landmark and Desert Inn all met their fate at the hands of dynamite. If implosions didn’t do the job, we flooded them with the waters of Lake Mead, as was the case with The Lost City, an ancient pueblo village. Or fire ravaged through, as happened with the Moulin Rouge, the first racially integrated casino in Vegas.