Colorado Belle Hotel has a very wide section of riverwalk, with these pilasters spaced every so often. The Seagulls seem to love to perch on them! We are very fortunate to be able to live out our last years here, amidst such beauty!
We've been to Laughlin, and the casinos, a few times, but that was before we moved to Colorado in 2002.
@Shirley Martin The sad part is that when Hoover Dam was completed in the 1930s, population growth in this parched, Godforsaken place was never imagined to have become a burgeoning demand on water.......it rains about 6 inches here A YEAR. Hoover created the enormous Lake Mead, with it's 550-mile shoreline, man-made! Las Vegas grew immensely, placing great demand on water, as did towns downstream of it. Thus Lake Mead has in the last few years had it's level reduced to historic lows, partly due to long-term drought in the areas to the north, which supply the bulk of the water to the Lake, and thence to areas downstream. Predictions of water shortages are looming. Strangely, though, the area where we live depends on NO WATER from the Colorado River! Ours is derived from wells, located here and there about the Desert countryside. How much the River affects those aquifers, I dunno. Time will tell. Lake Mead: The first time I laid eyes on it, I was speechless! On my honeymoon, July, 1965, headed for my Uncle's place north of L.A., big sign showed "Hoover Dam", next left. Had heard of it vaguely, but knew very little about it. That a lake of this grandeur could exist in the middle of this horrible-looking Desert was inconceivable to me. Hoover Dam, 700 feet high with a wall of water behind it 500 feet deep! Aerial view of the backside of the dam, looking downstream. U.S. Highway 93 crosses the top of the dam. Yes, those itty-bitty specks are cars and trucks! Looks like a semi there in the middle; left side is Arizona, right side Nevada. The roadway is 40 feet wide, at it's base, deep in the rock substructure, the dam is 660 feet thick.