We decided we needed to find a bit of warmer weather during our Thanksgiving break, and that we needed a little vacation, so we decided to head south to Hoover Dam. We've driven over the dam a bunch of times as we've gone to Arizona, but we wanted to actually take a tour and do some exploring this time. Learning about the dam and how it was constructed was really interesting -- even for the boys! There's a couple different options for tours, and we chose the power plant tour. Here's the turbine room:
There's like 14 or so turbines in here, but since this is "maintenance season", only two were generating power that day. "Peak season" is of course summer evenings when everyone is turning up the AC, cooking dinner, and doing laundry.A new highway over the dam has just been completed and opened to traffic. This bridge is AMAZING! When joining the two sides in the middle to complete the arch, the meeting parts were only 3/4" off -- that's an amazing engineering feat.
A panorama shot of the dam and new highway:
A look at the dam and Lake Mead:
Jacob straddling the Arizona-Nevada state line on the new highway pedestrian walk:
Walking across the new bridge:
We probably spent about 3 to 4 hours here touring, exploring, and eating lunch. We all had a great time!
2 comments:
Just looking at the photo of that new bridge gives me butterflies in my stomach. Sounds like a very fun vacation!
We'll have to drive through there next time we go to California - it looks awesome!
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