A visit to Hoover Dam, that iconic concrete giant straddling the Colorado River at the border of Nevada and Arizona, offers history, power and jaw-dropping views. Visitors can walk around the site and ...

Long before Lake Mead became a symbol of drought and decline, its cliffs echoed with the roar of trains carrying materials to build the Hoover Dam. The Historic Railroad Trail follows those abandoned ...

Every day of the week, from dawn until dusk, throngs of tourists travel more than 30 miles from the Las Vegas Strip to marvel at what’s been called the country’s most impressive engineering feat — ...

Saturday commemorates the 89th anniversary of the Hoover Dam's completed construction, considered by most experts "a modern miracle" and one of the most visited sites in the world. The 726-foot-high ...

On this day in history, July 7, 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. Over the course of the next five years, more than 21,000 men would work tirelessly to produce what would become the largest ...

The Hoover Dam is one of the great wonders of American engineering and in addition it is an important part of our nation’s critical infrastructure. Here’s a look at how the Bureau of Reclamation, a ...

Even though I found myself visiting on an aggressively Cleveland weather day - gray skies, bone-chilling wind, and, believe it or not, snow - the lake was still a sight to see from the overlook. Like ...

The dam holds back the water of Lake Mead and is the focal point of security efforts. Seen from the bottom of the facility, an area off-limits to tourists. The under-construction Hoover Dam Bypass can ...

A feat of modern civil engineering, Hoover Dam has stood tall and brought billions of visitors to Las Vegas since it was constructed in the 1930s. But one of the lesser known facts about it is that it ...

Lincoln County is getting less hydropower because the dams have less to give. Since the turn of this century, Hoover’s ...