10 miles away
Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery
Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery, in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Arizona.
Hoover Dam
Straddling the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona, this was the world's largest dam when completed in 1935, and instrumental in generating power and providing irrigation via Lake Mead, which was created behind the dam.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Landmark
- Destination
- Lake Mead National Recreation Area
- County
- Mohave County
- State
- Arizona
- Designations
- Historic Civil Engineering Landmark · National Historic Landmark · National Register of Historic Places listed place
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 78.2 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 100.0
- Significance score
- 60.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- usbr.gov(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 36.0156, -114.7378
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Hoover Dam is a landmark near Lake Mead National Recreation Area, in Mohave County. It is one of the landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 78.2 out of 100, at medium confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Description: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab), used under CC BY-SA 4.0(opens in a new tab)
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Black Canyon of the Colorado
The Black Canyon of the Colorado is the canyon on the Colorado River where Hoover Dam was built. The canyon is located on the Colorado River at the state line between Nevada and Arizona. The western wall of the gorge is in the El Dorado Mountains, and the eastern wall is in the Black Mountains of Arizona.
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Black Mountains
The Black Mountains are an extensive, mostly linear, north-south trending 75 miles (121 km) long mountain range in northwest Arizona. It forms the north-south border of southwest Mohave County as it borders the eastern shore of the south-flowing Colorado River from the Hoover Dam. The northwest and part of the western areas of the range are located within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
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Lake Mohave
Lake Mohave is a reservoir on the Colorado River between the Hoover Dam and Davis Dam in Cottonwood Valley defining the border between Nevada and Arizona in the United States. This 67-mile (108 km) stretch of the Colorado River flows past Boulder City, Nelson, Searchlight, Cottonwood Cove, Cal-Nev-Ari, and Laughlin to the west in Nevada and Willow Beach and Bullhead City to the east in Arizona. A maximum width of 4 miles (6.4 km) wide and an elevation of 647 feet (197 m), Lake Mohave encompasses 28,260 acres (114.4 km2) of water.47 miles away
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A historic ranch ruin and perhaps one of the few evidences of civilization (apart from the 4WD tracks) visible in the park.52 miles away
Pakoon Springs
It is one of the two largest springs of the Pakoon Basin. Getting here can be done along Highway 111 (Pakoon Springs), but do note that coming here in summer is not advisable due to the heat and low elevation.