Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thousands of men and their families came to Black Canyon to tame the Colorado River. It took less than five years, in a harsh and barren land, to build the largest dam of its time. Now, years later, Hoover Dam still stands as a world-renowned structure. The Dam is a National Historic Landmark and has been rated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of America's Seven Modern Civil Engineering Wonders.
HOT! This was the temperature when we arrived at the dam (38.3C)
Overflow spillway
Overflow spillway towers
The Colorado River which empties out of Lake Mead
Spillway with Tillman Memorial Bridge above
Tillman Memorial Bridge
Entrance to visitor centre
Dedication Monument Sculpture with Winged Warriors
The plaza’s terrazzo floor is actually a celestial map that marks the time of the dam’s creation based on the 25,772-year axial precession of the earth.
A bronze high scaler statue in the likeness of Joe Kine, one of the last surviving high scalers who worked on the Hoover Dam project.
Tillman Memorial Bridge
Near the spillway in the baking sun!
Colorado River downstream from the dam
Lake Mead
