High Scalers drill into the canyon wall 500 feet above the Colorado River in Black Canyon at the Hoover Dam site. April 1, 1932. Bureau of Reclamation. Even under the best of conditions ...

Amid the woozy desert haze springs an incongruous streak of blue. Lake Mead is the most mirage-like thing I’ve ever seen that ...

Rising more than 700 feet above the raging waters of the Colorado River, Hoover Dam was called one of the greatest engineering works in history. 5,000 working men and their families came to live ...

Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines ...

The trail ends at the Hoover Dam parking garage ... Rob Kachelriess is a full-time freelance writer who covers travel, dining, entertainment, and other fun stuff for Thrillist.

The excursion is along the Colorado River's Black Canyon National Water Trail— crossing the widest single-arch concrete ...

Reclamation said it would expound on its thinking, and it did — in a 54-page report that was announced not at Hoover Dam, but in an overlooked news release on the afternoon of the last full ...

7 hours Guides double as stand-up comedians on this Hoover Dam bus tour. In addition to round-trip transportation from your Las Vegas hotel and a dedicated driver, this full-day tour includes a 45 ...

The new report from nonprofit group Tell The Dam Truth estimates the full lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by Glen Canyon and Hoover dams are equal to the average yearly emissions from ...

A 25-year-old woman who was an apparent heiress to the Yellow Pages fortune was shot to death in Arizona not far from Hoover Dam in early 1979. The case has never been solved. Despite the passing ...