The Las Vegas Adventurer

Take your Vegas vacation way off-Strip – and three miles up!
Skydive Las Vegas offers a unique view of southern Nevada — rather, whatever you manage to take in before the jitters take over! At 10,000 feet you’re all but guaranteed to see the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, the Colorado River, Valley of Fire, Red Rock Canyon, and Mt. Charleston.
A free shuttle picks you up on the Strip (you need to call 1-800-875-9348 to find out where) at 8:00am and 12:00 noon and also drops you off when your day is done. You can, of course, save a bit of …read more

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Driving over the Hoover Dam is a lesson in patience. The two-lane bridge connecting Nevada, Arizona and Utah is often clogged with traffic and has even become an economic burden on the states because the major commercial corridor simply doesn’t move quickly enough.
Over the last several years there have been lingering concerns of possible catastrophes involving vehicle accidents or terrorist threats that could hinder the dam and its facilities and threaten the water supply of several southwestern states.

Enter the Hoover Dam Bypass, a “twin rib” concrete arch bridge about 1,600 feet south of the current bridge and an improvement …read more

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We had a wonderful break in our weather last week – it actually got pretty chilly again! But now we’re back up where we’re supposed to be this time of year and many locals and visitors are starting to think of ways to keep cool.
One popular destination is Lake Mead, located just 30 miles southeast of the Las Vegas valley. Lake Mead is the reservoir created by the Hoover Dam and is the largest man-made lake in the US! It straddles both Nevada and Arizona and extends over 100 miles behind the dam.

Lake Mead has made the news over the …read more

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