Las Vegas, NV & Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
After shopping at Camping World in Las Vegas we drove through Henderson, NV then to the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Boulder City, NV. Camped at the Bolder Beach Campground. On Saturday & Sunday we drove down and parked on the shoreline. The lake is about 5’ behind us. The water level is at an historic low since the lake was created. See one of the photos. You can see a water monitoring station and the white rocks. This indicates the normal lake level. The Southwest is having a severe drought. If it continues for a few more years, it will be the worst drought since about the year 1100, per the experts who study such things. On Sunday we visited the Hoover Dam. “Completed in 1935, Hoover Dam turned the sometimes violent Colorado River into the still waters of Lake Mead. More than 5,000 men worked for five years to erect the massive structure between the steep walls of the Black Canyon”.
After visiting the dam, we went grocery shopping in Boulder City then spent the rest of the day camped on the beach.
