Hoover Dam, spanning the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona, provides electricity and water for many residents, but did you know how it works or that history lies in a town not very far away? Today we take a look at this engineering marvel.


History of the Hoover Dam is lurking everywhere you look! Minutes from the dam itself in Boulder City is the Boulder Dam Hotel, built in the 1930s. This historic hotel, named after the dam's original name Boulder Dam provides charm and class for visitors to the area.

In the day, the hotel was popular with tourists and celebrities alike. Some celebrities included Shirley Temple, Will Rogers, Bette Davis, and Boris Karloff.

After being renovated in the 1990s, the hotel boasts an impressive Hoover Dam museum completely free! The museum tells the tale of the people who built the dam and what peril they endured to accomplish the incredible engineering feat.

The Hoover Dam itself offers tours that travel through the very same tunnels dug out of the rock to the bottom where generators produce electricity. From there, one continues up through elevators and tunnels to peer out from the dam itself before ending at the top where one can cross from Arizona to Nevada and back, view down at the Colorado River, or back at Lake Mead.

Finally, a short distance from the Hoover Dam is the Mike O'CallaghanPat Tillman Memorial Bridge where some of the best views of the Hoover Dam exist.


VIDEO FILMED: 08/20/2022

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00:00 Boulder City
00:34 Boulder Dam Hotel
03:19 Hoover Dam Museum
07:59 First Looks at the Dam
11:42 Hoover Dam Overlook
14:50 Hoover Dam Tour
24:51Mike O'CallaghanPat Tillman Memorial Bridge
27:53 Lake Mead

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