Lake Mead National Recreation Area
\n<\/strong>“With striking landscapes and brilliant blue waters, this year-round playground spreads across 1.5 million acres of mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes. See the Hoover Dam from the waters of Lake Mead or Lake Mohave, or find solitude in one of the park’s nine wilderness areas.”
\nHere is the Area’s website<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0Page of links to maps<\/a>. \u00a0Accessibility<\/a>\u00a0 Call 702-293-8990 for information.
\n<\/a>River Mountains Loop Trail<\/a>\u00a0 35.3 miles from Boulder City to Henderson. \u00a0As described on TrailLink\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0“The surrounding River Mountains are home to one of the largest bighorn sheep populations in Nevada”.
\n<\/a>? \u00a0\u00a0Historic Railroad Trail<\/a> 3.7 miles from trailhead to Hoover Dam Parking Garage. \u00a0“The Historic Railroad Trail is easily accessed either near the Alan Bible Visitor Center or via the Hoover Dam parking garage. It is an easy hike and has great panoramic views of Lake Mead, Boulder Basin, and Fortification Hill.” \u00a0Soft sand may be a problem in places.\u00a0\u00a0Tunnel #3 is closed.<\/em>
\n<\/a>? \u00a0Bluffs Trail <\/a>\u00a0Jim Boone of birdandhike.com<\/a> describes this trail as ” a nice, relaxing, 0.9-mile stroll across the desert to a low summit overlooking all of the surrounding territory.” \u00a0Judging from this youtube video<\/a> of the trail by bigs2020, you would be wise to have trekking poles for balance. \u00a0There are some pretty rocky stretches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lake Mead National Recreation Area “With striking landscapes and brilliant blue waters, this year-round playground spreads across 1.5 million acres of mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes. See the Hoover Dam from the waters of Lake Mead or Lake Mohave, or find solitude in one of the park’s nine wilderness areas.” Here is the … Continue reading Lake Mead National Recreation Area<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nevada-federal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8936,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/8936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}