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.
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.
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.
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.
Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery, in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Arizona.
About this list
Attractions are associated with the nearest recognisable destination rather than by municipal boundary, so a place just outside Lake Mead National Recreation Area still appears here if that is how visitors reach it. None of these publish an official visitor count, so they are ranked on public interest and tourism significance. Each page says so.
Near Lake Mead National Recreation Area
The closest attractions outside Lake Mead National Recreation Area, measured from the places listed above rather than from a town centre nothing occupies.
