Hoover Dam Experience from Las Vegas

Overview

Your Hoover Dam tour travels from Las Vegas, through Henderson - second largest city in Nevada, historic Boulder City, past the picturesque Lake Mead, then over the top of Hoover Dam to the Arizona Lookout. A brief stop will be made at the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge, providing an opportunity for you to walk on the tip of the bridge for amazing photo opportunities. Your professional tour guide will provide full narration of this 5-51/2 hour adventure as you travel through the colorful natural side of the Las Vegas Valley. Enjoy spectacular views of scenic Lake Mead, the awe inspiring Mike O'Callahan/Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge (Bypass Bridge) and the entire Hoover Dam complex. This tour includes a light breakfast snack and access to the Visitor Center and the Generator Room.

City: Las Vegas

Sun 22 Sep

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Starting at $81.00

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Sun 22 Sep

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What's Included

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Bottled water

Air-conditioned vehicle

Tour includes light breakfast snack

Includes tour of the Generator room and trip to Visitor Center

Additional Info

Specialized infant seats are available
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Rest room facilities are available at the Bypass Bridge Lookout and at the Visitor Center
The Visitor Center and Generator Room are now available as part of the tour. The Hard Hat tour is no longer available

What To Expect

Hoover Dam

This exciting tour commences with complimentary hotel pickup. As you make your way to the Hoover Dam, you will travel past Lake Mead, the second largest man-made lake in the Western Hemisphere. The tour will provide you with the opportunity to walk on the top of the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge. Following this stop, you will cross over the top of the Dam with closeup views of the architecture, penstocks and Arizona Spillway. When the Hoover Dam was completed early in 1935, it was both the world's largest electric power producing facility and the world's largest concrete structure, weighing a total of 6.6 million tons. You will discover a multitude of facts on your tour about this impressive structure.

Hoover Dam Bypass

The Bypass Bridge opened in 2010 stretching nearing 2,000 feet long and 840 feet above the Colorado River, making it the second highest bridge in the United States. Ample time is provided for souvenir shopping and purchase of food items at the Dam restaurant. This is truly an exciting and very educational experience that will provide you with a thorough overview of this fascinating, nearly 90 year old, civil engineering wonder of the world.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (290)

Ohiosoccermom

Nov 2018

Ron was a wonderful tour guide. He gave us lots of interesting factoids and stories. Amazing! Awesome! The dam and Lake Mead are beyond anything I had imagined. Riding the tour bus was a great choice as we were able to bypass the traffic and lines. Highly recommend this.

John R

Nov 2018

We selected this $49 tour because we didn't want to commit a full day to Hoover Dam. IMO, this is the way to go. I called the day before to book the tour - easily done with their staff. The next day Bill picked us up at our hotel at 7:40AM. Given this is off season in Vegas there was only one other couple to pick up. So the five of us had a little travel party in the executive (16 pax) bus. Bill was just the right amount of "tour guide" - and all of it was informative and humorously presented. We enjoyed him. He provided good advice at each of our four stops (Boulder City downtown, the HD overlook, the HD visitor center and Dam walk and again in Boulder City on the return ride to observe long horn sheep grazing. The HD is absolutely amazing! And the visitor center/reclamation center was first class. Museum quality presentations, dioramas, video clips and artifacts that told the HD story from idea to design to construction to operation highlighting the key aspects of how our nation achieved this "wonder of the modern world" creation. Don't miss this experience. If you can, visit in the off season and regardless of season, visit early in the day. The crowds build by lunchtime.

melissajO5762XP

Nov 2018

Bill was our tour guide. He was very informative. We were picked up from our hotel at 8:10 and dropped off at 2:00. We stopped at historic Boulder Dam Hotel. Able to visit for about twenty minutes. Then we went to the bridge over Hoover Dam. Awesome views that used to only be seen by helicopter. Bill took us behind the Dam for some pictures and we saw a World War II bunker. Then he dropped us off st the visitor center for two hours. We did not get to see the workings of the Dam - something about it being worked on. Then he took us for a great view of Lake Mead Marina. We stopped and got some great pictures of bighorn sheep. It was a great trip! If you come in the summer, it must be a million degrees. Bring sunglasses, sunscreen and water (this tour had plenty of water!)