According to a Las Vegas Sun article, Lake Mead and the surrounding park was originally Boulder Dam National Recreation Area, but became Lake Mead National Recreation Area on Aug. 11, 1947.

It also links four national parks — Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Grand Canyon and Joshua Tree — with five national monuments, as well as Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Lake Mead National ...

At 1.5 million acres, Lake Mead National Recreation Area is twice the size of Rhode ... The book has 90 color photos and maps. It is available for $21.95 in parks, stores, and on Amazon.

78th Annual Camellia Show: The Camellia Society of Central Florida hosts its 78th annual Camellia Show and Plant Sale at Mead Botanical ... Casselberry Recreation Center, Secret Lake Park, 200 ...

The tiny Mojave poppy bee is only known to live in seven sites in and around Nevada’s Lake Mead National Recreation Area. This bee is a poppy specialist, gathering pollen from the imperiled Las Vegas ...

When driving around town, some may have noticed that many of the city’s street lights have a different look to them.

In addition to American staples – including the aforementioned "hamburger sandwich" at Louis' Lunch, which travelers describe as bucket list-worthy – the downtown area boasts numerous fine ...

Lake Mead is named for the man who oversaw the construction of the Hoover Dam and was a trailblazing pioneer of water ...

Las Vegas has now gone 212 days without rain, and all of Clark County is under either extreme or exceptional drought, but water levels at Lake Mead keep rising. Newsweek reached out to the National ...

Water managers aren’t in for the exceptional year they had hoped for, with snowpack across the West underperforming in the ...

Lake Mead, which is in Nevada and Arizona ... The most recent U.S. Drought Monitor map, which shows data valid through February 4, revealed that 100 percent of Clark County is battling extreme ...