"A Dam Good Time" Pmf1153's photos around Boulder City, United States

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Boulder City, United States by TravelPod blogger Pmf1153 titled "A Dam Good Time!" Pmf1153's travel blog entry: "Our next stop was to see the Hoover Dam (formerly known as Boulder Dam) in Boulder City, Nevada. Boulder City was created to house the crews that worked on the dam back in the 30s. Besides the Hoover dam, Boulder City's best asset is the nearby Lake Meade National Wildlife Refuge. Lake Meade was beautiful, despite the lowlake levels that have resulted from chronic drought conditions. Just in case you (like us) forgot what you might have learned as a kid about the Hoover Dam, here's a brief history and description (from Wikipedia -- there are more details to be found there at en.wikipedia.org • Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. When completed in 1936, it was both the world's largest hydroelectric power generating station and the world's largest concrete structure. It was surpassed in both these respects by the Grand Coulee Dam in 1945. It is currently the world's 38th-largest hydroelectric generating station. • This dam, located 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, is named after Herbert Hoover, who played an instrumental role in its construction, first as the Secretary of Commerce, and then later, as the President of the United States. Construction began in 1931 ...