Major John Wesley Powell makes the first recorded trip through the ... Project Act. The Bureau of Reclamation opens bids for the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant.

If you're planning things to do in Las Vegas, you may be considering a day trip to the Hoover Dam – the National ... Guides from the Bureau of Reclamation will take you through the inspection ...

High Scalers drill into the canyon wall 500 feet above the Colorado River in Black Canyon at the Hoover Dam site. April 1, 1932. Bureau of Reclamation. Even under the best of conditions ...

“The Colorado was just an unfettered river ... of the Hoover Dam is 96, but historians agree the actual figure is almost certainly higher. A project history by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation ...

Although it might pale in comparison to some of the natural wonders of the world, the Hoover Dam is definitely a wonder of the engineering world. Finished in 1935, and now a designated US ...

The excursion is along the Colorado River's Black Canyon National Water Trail— crossing the widest single-arch concrete ...

An "adrenalin junkie" from north Wales has been fined by police in America after swimming across the Colorado River at the Hoover Dam. Arron Hughes, 28, was on a stag do when he took a dip at the ...

Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black ... visit the Hoover Dam page on the Bureau of Reclamation website.