You could be among the million tourists who goes to Hoover Dam annually by taking one of the following Las Vegas Hoover Dam tours. Originally it was called Boulder Canyon Dam or Boulder Dam, but a 1947 bill went through the U.S. Congress to modify the name to Hoover Dam. Built between 1931 and 1936, this $49 million ($811 million in today's money) cement gravity-arch type dam was finished two years ahead of schedule. Hoover Dam is 726.4 feet (221.4 meters) high and 1,244 feet (379 meters) long.
Include Adventure to Hoover Dam Visits with These Las Vegas Tours
Take to the sky and view the dam built during the Great Depression, approximately the same time your airplane was developed, with the Hoover Dam in Biplane Adventure. You'll sit in the front seat of an open-cockpit Waco YMF-5C Classic biplane. There's a 10 minute safety rundown about points you should know when you ride in this airplane that was designed in 1938. Don't worry. This plane wasn't built 75 years ago. The biplane's design stems from the '30s, but this actual airplane was built in 2001. Once your pilot powers off the Henderson Executive Airport, you fly over Boulder City, originally built to house workers who built Hoover Dam. A peak of 5,251 employees was working on the dam in 1934. Your biplane flies over one of the seven wonders of the industrial world, named Hoover Dam. From there, you'll pass over Lake Mead, named for Elwood Mead, commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1924 to 1936, during the planning, design and construction of what was named the Boulder Canyon Project. The conclusion of your 45-minute biplane flight takes you over the Vegas Strip. Remembering this journey is easy, because it's recorded in high definition video that makes for a wonderful souvenir. Add an additional $99 to your tour and your pilot adds a session of aerobatics, such as loops, barrel rolls and aileron rolls, to your jaunt.
A number of Vegas to Hoover Dam tours make use of helicopters as the mode of transportation. Since the dam is only 30 miles from Henderson Executive Airport and 32 miles from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, it only takes a matter of minutes to reach your destination in a chopper. That means you can also see other stunning landmarks via helicopter. Top-of-the-line helicopters are used when you enjoy the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, and Hoover Dam Helicopter Tour. You'll fly right over Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. Yearly electricity produced from the turbines at Hoover Dam amounts to 4.2 billion kilowatt hours. From there you zip to the Grand Canyon, spending a whole 30 minutes taking in this gigantic geological formation. Three hours after lift-off, you get an aerial run over the Vegas Strip, before you touch-down on the chopper's landing pad.
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