Las Vegas, Nevada
2018

Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the Nevada and Arizona. It was built between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933, it was officially renamed Hoover Dam, for President Herbert Hoover, by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947.

Hoover Dam creates Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume (when it is full). The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California.

Lake Mead

The best views (almost all of these pictures) are from the bridge

Note the electricity generating infrastructure