www.BoulderCityChamber.com (702) 293-2034 3 2015 Boulder City Relocation and Visitor’s Guide www.BoulderCityChamber.com (702) 293-2034 4 2015 Boulder City Relocation and Visitor’s Guide Welcome to Boulder City! Contents “Best City by a Dam Site” 6 Boulder City: Then and Now Thank you for your interest in clean, green 7 Hoover Dam Boulder City, the only city in Nevada with 8 Statistical Information laws against gaming and the home of the 9 Transportation & Services State’s number one tourist attraction, Hoover 10 Local Government Dam. 11 Schools, Museums & Services 12 Recreational Activities This is a wholesome, family-oriented community with a significant retirement 13 Day Trips & Area Hiking Trails sector that takes pride in it’s low crime rate 14 Library and Amphitheater and high-quality police and fire protection. We 15 Map of Boulder City are ideally located between the entertainment 20 Spring Jamboree and excitement of Las Vegas and the 21 Your Chamber of Commerce recreation paradise of Lake Mead National 21 Calendar of Events Recreation Area, with North America’s largest 22 Motels & RV Parks man-made lake. 25 Chamber Membership The information enclosed is a mini-profile of 31 Restaurant Directory Boulder City and what it has to offer guests, 32 Business & Shopping Directory new residents and businesses. If you have any 42 Public Art questions, please don’t hesitate to call. 42 Boulder City License Plate 43 Kiosk Map Welcome and Enjoy! 44 Member’s Corner Jill Rowland-Lagan, CEO 50 Corporate Partners This Relocation and Visitor Guide designed and published by Appleby Arts Boulder City P.O. Box 61238, Boulder City, NV 89006 www.applebyarts.com Chamber of Commerce (702) 294-1392 465 Nevada Way This publication is designed and produced for the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce. 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It has a state-of-the-art library is a beautiful high and a wealth of interesting and unique shops located oasis in the desert in it’s historic downtown district along Nevada Way. (elevation 2500 ft.) Boulder City also sponsors numerous Special Events with green lawns and Festivals. For instance, the annual Art in the Park and many clean, and Spring Jamboree celebrations are recognized as the tree-shaded streets foremost art exhibitions in the Las Vegas area. overlooking man- A very extensive made Lake Mead network of parks and the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The provides visitors with city is 5 miles from Lake Mead, 8 miles from the many recreational Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge and opportunities as Hoover Dam, and 21 miles south of Las Vegas, the varied as soccer, “Entertainment Capital of the World.” 2009 Money baseball, motocross, Magazine listed Boulder City as the 6th best place to horseback riding, retire of the top 25. model airplane The City of Boulder City is known as the city that flying, car and boat racing, BMX competitions, golf, housed over 4,000 hiking, off-road biking, fishing, waterskiing, diving, workers during shooting clubs, ATVs and ziplining. the construction of Within Boulder City there are 71 acres of landscaped Hoover Dam, which park and plaza areas, 36 miles of hiking and mountain lasted from 1931 to bike trails and year-round swimming, racquetball, 1935. Boulder City shuffleboard, tennis and basketball courts (indoor is still home to some and outdoor), picnic of the original Dam tables, lighted grass workers, fondly athletic fields and called the “31ers”, and their families. The City was kiddie parks. There supervised and regulated by the Bureau of Reclamation are two municipal and all land in and around the City was owned by the golf courses – an 18- federal government. hole course and a 27- In 1958, the federal government passed the Boulder hole course. There City Act and established an Independent Municipal are art galleries and Government, the City of Boulder City. Under this act, the specialty shops, federal government turned over the existing home site along with quaint sidewalk dining in the booming (approximately 33 square miles of land), and the utility Historic District downtown. system to residents. The City Charter (approved by the The Boulder City Municipal Airport features residents) prohibits gaming making Boulder City unique daily flights to the Grand Canyon and also skydiving. as the only city in Nevada where gaming is illegal. For a good hike Boulder City’s present population of 16,208 provides check out the River a quiet, small-town atmosphere found nowhere else in Mountain Trailhead Southern Nevada. More importantly, it offers a welcome off Highway 93 or contrast and a the Railroad Tunnel dramatic alternative Trail located at to the often frantic Lakeshore Drive Las Vegas lifestyle. near the Lake Mead The community Visitor Center. The takes great pride River Mountain Loop Trail is a 37 mile paved trail for in its historic past bikes, horses, joggers and walkers. Or simply enjoy a and abounds with brisk bike ride along the well marked, nearby paths. www.BoulderCityChamber.com (702) 293-2034 6 2015 Boulder City Relocation and Visitor’s Guide Hoover Dam Early in the through the dam and power plant in 1937. Today, close 20th century, to one million visitors a year tour the dam. both spring No other politician was as instrumental in the and summer successful completion of this project than Herbert runoff, fed Hoover. A dozen years later, President Harry S. Truman mostly by signed Public Law 43, restoring the name of Hoover snowpack in Dam. the Rocky The actual cost of the dam, the All-American Canal, Mountains, the town of Boulder City, highways, railroads and other caused massive work projects, was $165 million. The dam itself had a destruction by final price tag of nearly $60 million. floods along the 1,400-mile-long Colorado River and Hoover Dam is the second highest dam in the eroded millions of tons of valuable topsoil for the whole country and the 27th highest in the world. It is farms and ranches along its banks. In drier years, the 660 feet thick Colorado’s flow slowed to almost a trickle, destroying at its base – crops and livestock. as big as After a series of studies on how to harness the two football power of this river, the federal government passed fields end to the Boulder Canyon Project Act in 1928, just weeks end. There after the election of Herbert Hoover. This authorized is enough construction of a dam and canal to control flooding concrete (4.5 and supply water to the regions of California, Nevada million cubic and Arizona. yards) in the Thousands of American workers (unemployed as dam to build a result of the nation’s stock market collapse in 1929) a two-lane packed up and headed West for a job building the Boulder road from Seattle, WA to Miami, FL. The dam is 726 Dam (as it was known until 1947) in Black Canyon, on feet tall, almost 200 feet taller than the Washington the Arizona and Nevada border. Before the dam could Monument. even be built, The reservoir, Lake Mead, has a capacity of 1.24 the workers trillion cubic feet. had to divert During peak periods of electrical demand, enough the Colorado water runs through the generators to fill 15 average-size River away swimming pools (20,000 gallons each) in one second. from the new Hoover Dam’s delivery system provides water to construction more than 18 million people in Arizona, Nevada and site. They California. even blasted MORE INFORMATION: tunnels right Hoover Dam is located just 30 miles southeast of through the Las Vegas on US Highway 93, right at the Nevada- canyon walls. Arizona border. The Colorado River gushed through these diversion The local tunnels for the next five years while more than 5,000 Hoover Dam men toiled in the dry, harsh canyon bottom. They Visitors’ sometimes worked in temperatures above 120 degrees Center opens in the shade, for a day’s wage of $4. Officially, 96 at 9 a.m. and people died building the dam (none are actually buried closes at 5 in the dam, despite a legend to the contrary). p.m. (Pacific The dam, dedicated by President Franklin D. Time) daily, Roosevelt in September 1935, was completed in less except for than five years – ahead of schedule and under budget. Thanksgiving The Bureau of Reclamation started conducting tours & Christmas. www.BoulderCityChamber.com (702) 293-2034 7 2015 Boulder City Relocation and Visitor’s Guide Statistical Information Climate: Laughlin, NV ................................................................................80 miles Los Angeles, CA .........................................................................295 miles Semi-arid with low humidity and uncontaminated, smog-free air. Needles, CA ................................................................................103 miles Phoenix, AZ ................................................................................265