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Boulder Beach Campground, Lake Mead Recreation Area, Boulder City NV

Hoover Dam from Bypass Bridge, April 2, 2011
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

Nights I've camped here

Messing Up Their Results

... Jack Panksepp found that laboratory-reared rats who've never seen or smelled a cat stop playing the instant you put a tuft of cat hair in their play space. Since frightened animals don't play, that's a good indication that those rats are afraid. ... This experience got Dr Panksepp to thinking about how many research laboratories might be messing up their results due to researchers' coming to work smelling like their pet cats.

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