This is a great tour!

This is an in depth tour of the building and history of Hoover/Boulder Dam.  

· Learn where the name came from, is it really Hoover Dam could it be Boulder Dam?

· Was it built on an earthquake fault line?

· Where is the World War II bunker, your guide will point out this rarely noticed site.

· Hear the story of why the dam was built.

· Learn how many dam deaths there were during construction and how few deaths were officially listed.

· Are there bodies buried in the Dam?

Ask your guide about the:

· Four 400' Tall Intake Towers

· Giant Arizona Spillway (Large enough to hold a battleship)

· Generator Buildings

· Outlet Works

· Four giant 56’ in Diameter and 4000’ Long Diversion Tunnels

· Huge Fish

· Monument to the Highscalers

· Winged Figures of the Republic

· Star Chart

· Elevator Towers designed to tell the Dam story like Totem Poles

· Time Zone Change

· State Line

· Story of the Dam Name Hoover vs. Boulder

· Controversy Over the Number of Deaths

· Drought Line (Calcium surrounds the Lake like a bathtub ring)

· The Great Depression

· Workers Pay Scale

· Racism

· Dam Mascots Grave

· and much, much more

Everyone enjoys this guided one way walk from the Arizona overlook, across the Arizona spillway by the intake towers and over the dam to the Nevada memorial for the highscalers.

This tour stops approx. 10 times along the way to inform and point out information on the concrete, the generators and the construction and more.