Our Dam Pictures

During our trip to Vegas for the CarMax President's Club Dinner, we visited the Hoover Dam. Neither of us had ever been there before, so we weren't sure what to expect. We weren't disappointed. We signed up for the Dam Tour. Our Dam Guide told us to take all the Dam pictures we wanted, so we did. No, I won't bore you with them all...just the Dam good ones.


We took the Dam elevator to the power plant on the Nevada side where we saw 8 large generators and a floor so clean you could eat off of it. They only do tours on the Nevada side, so I wonder if the Arizona side (which is a mirror image except it has 9 generators) is just as clean. You know you only clean up that much when company is coming.

During the power plant portion of the tour, our Dam Tour group was combined with the common folks who only paid for a lesser Dam tour. We Dam Tour folks got to go into the depths of the dam and walk through the dam tunnels and take dam elevator rides where we got to know each other real dam well in tight spaces.

The picture below is looking out of one of the ventilation shafts from inside the dam. In it you can see the new by-pass bridge. They say it takes an hour off the travel time since you don't have to go over the Dam and try to avoid hitting all the Dam tourists.

To get to that glorious view, you had to be willing to walk through this tunnel.

And over this grate!

After our Dam Tour was over, we spent some time up top taking in the breathtaking views of Lake Mead. The water was really this blue and the sky that clear. It was the perfect day for a Dam Tour.

Before we went back to Vegas for more fun on the Strip, we took a walk on the new Mike O'Callaghan - Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge for a few more Dam pictures. Here's one of them.And just like Disney World, you can always get taken for a ride on the Dam photo ops.

We hope you enjoyed our Dam pictures. We had a lot of Dam fun taking them.