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.

The 1.5 million acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area covers “mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes,” the National Park Service says. National Park Service photo Imagine an ear ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Along the dusty gravel approach road, the horizon wobbles. The relentless desert heat has roasted reality into a flitting ...

That includes Nevada’s only national park, Great Basin, as well as Ward Mountain Recreation Area and Cave Lake State Park. The relatively remote city is naturally stunning, home to 5,000-year ...

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.

Visitors can explore the Connecticut Science Center, the Bushnell Center for Performing Arts and the Old State House, which is a National Historic Landmark that was the center of government ...

Thanks to Matt Weberg, Area Supervisor for the Minnesota DNR Fisheries office serving southern Lake ... map pre-dates other early surveys of the North Shore, and many of the Ojibwe names on the map ...