Latest estimates place the Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack at just 83 percent of the historic median for this time of year.

The walkway, which stretches the entire length of the dam, offers breathtaking views of Lake Mead on one side and the Colorado River on the other. The Hoover ... for two years before I went ...

But the United States has built a dam where gravity does not work. At the Hoover Dam built on the Colorado River, if anything is thrown upwards, it keeps floating up after hitting the dam’s wall.

Major John Wesley Powell makes the first recorded trip through the Grand Canyon and down the length of the Colorado River ... the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant.

Rising more than 700 feet above the raging waters of the Colorado River, Hoover Dam was called one of the greatest engineering works in history. 5,000 working men and their families came to live ...

Take in views of Lake Mead, the Hoover Dam and the Colorado River on this small-group tour ... you'll enjoy 360-degree views from the observation deck before descending to the Power Plant.

“The fact that we’re here with this facility completed almost two years to the day before ... Lake Powell that would normally flow downstream to Lake Mead. Last week, the seven Colorado River ...

the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United ...