Boulder Beach Campground, Lake Mead Recreation Area, Boulder City NV
Hoover Dam from Bypass Bridge, April 2, 2011
Boulder Beach Campground is a Lake Mead National Recreation Area campground on the shore of Lake Mead just west of Hoover Dam.
The National Park Service has this to say
Open All Year
Lake Mead National Recreation Area's campgrounds offer restrooms, running water, dump stations, grills, picnic tables and shade. RV's, trailers and tents welcome. Concessioner campgrounds, including recreational vehicle hook-ups, are also available within the park.
Boulder Beach Campground, Lake Mead Recreation Area, Boulder City NV
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Nights I've camped here
Heliograph routes of the 1890 Practice
The date was May 15th, 1890, and the Army's Department of Arizona had just completed a major heliograph practice; it was, in fact, the largest the world had ever seen. I call it the "Volkmar Practice", after the man responsible for it, Col. Wm. J. Volkmar, the Assistant Adjutant General and Chief Signal Officer for the Department of Arizona. Although the practice lasted only sixteen days, preparations for it took months of reconnaissance and preparation. Involved in the long range signaling maneuvers were twenty-five heliograph stations stretching from Whipple Barracks near Prescott to Fort Stanton near Ruidoso, New Mexico. My guess is that close to two hundred men were involved, both cavalry and infantry.