12 miles away
Black Mountains
A 75-mile range in north-western Arizona along the Colorado River below Hoover Dam, holding three wilderness areas and the mining site of Oatman.
Lake Mohave
A Colorado River reservoir between Hoover and Davis dams on the Nevada–Arizona border, part of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
- Rank in Arizona
- #115of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 50.1 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Natural Landmark
Lake Mohave is a reservoir on the Colorado River between Hoover Dam and Davis Dam, lying in Cottonwood Valley along the border between Nevada and Arizona. The 67-mile stretch of river it occupies passes Boulder City, Nelson, Searchlight, Cottonwood Cove, Cal-Nev-Ari and Laughlin on the Nevada side, and Willow Beach and Bullhead City on the Arizona side. The reservoir reaches a maximum width of 4 miles, sits at an elevation of 647 feet and covers 28,260 acres of water. It and the adjacent shoreline lands form part of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, administered by the National Park Service.
Where it is
Lake Mohave is a natural landmark near Lake Mead National Recreation Area, in Mohave County. It is one of the natural landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Lake Mohave, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Nearby attractions
17 miles away
Davis Dam
A Bureau of Reclamation dam completed in 1951 on the Arizona–Nevada border, impounding the Colorado River to form Lake Mohave.
25 miles away
Santa Claus
A themed roadside stop founded near Kingman in 1937, closed to business in 1995 and demolished some time in 2021 or 2022.
26 miles away
Black Canyon of the Colorado
The canyon on the Colorado River where Hoover Dam was built, named for the black volcanic rock exposed along its walls.
30 miles away
Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery
A US Fish and Wildlife Service hatchery on the Colorado River in Mohave County, twelve miles south of Hoover Dam.
32 miles away
Oatman
A former gold-mining camp in the Black Mountains that grew past 3,500 people in a year and now numbers 102.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Natural Landmark
- Destination
- Lake Mead National Recreation Area
- County
- Mohave County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 50.1 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 40.5
- Significance score
- 58.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 35.4372, -114.6436
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12