Resized 8.25 by 10.5 to 8.125 by 10.5 and Adjusted to 100% Vertical and 98.5% Horizontal Resized 8.25 by 10.5 to 8.125 by 10.5 and Adjusted to 100% Vertical and 98.5% Horizontal www.BoulderCityChamber.com (702) 293-2034 1 2014 Boulder City Relocation and Visitor’s Guide Resized 8.25 by 10.5 to 8.125 by 10.5 and Adjusted to 100% Vertical and 98.5% Horizontal www.BoulderCityChamber.com (702) 293-2034 2 2014 Boulder City Relocation and Visitor’s Guide Resized 8.25 by 10.5 to 8.125 by 10.5 and Adjusted to 100% Vertical and 98.5% Horizontal Welcome to Boulder City! Contents “Best City by a Dam Site” 4 Boulder City: Then and Now Thank you for your interest in clean, green 5 Hoover Dam Boulder City, the only city in Nevada with laws 6 Statistical Information against gaming and the home of the State’s 7 Transportation & Services number one tourist attraction, Hoover Dam. 8 Local Government 9 Schools, Museums & Services This is a wholesome, family-oriented 10 Recreational Activities community with a significant retirement sector that takes pride in it’s low crime rate and high- 11 Day Trips & Area Hiking Trails quality police and fire protection. We are 12 Library and Amphitheater ideally located between the entertainment and 13 Map of Boulder City excitement of Las Vegas and the recreation 18 Spring Jamboree paradise of Lake Mead National Recreation 19 Your Chamber of Commerce Area, with North America’s largest man-made 19 Calendar of Events lake. 20 Motels & RV Parks The information enclosed is a mini-profile of 21 Restaurant Directory Boulder City and what it has to offer guests, 22 Business & Shopping Directory new residents and businesses. If you have any 32 Public Art questions, please don’t hesitate to call. 32 Boulder City License Plate 33 Kiosk Map Welcome and Enjoy! 34 Member’s Corner Jill Rowland-Lagan, CEO 40 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 This publication is designed and produced for the Boulder City 465 Nevada Way Chamber of Commerce. 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Chief Executive Officer: Jill Rowland-Lagan www.BoulderCityChamber.com (702) 293-2034 3 2014 Boulder City Relocation and Visitor’s Guide Resized 8.25 by 10.5 to 8.125 by 10.5 and Adjusted to 100% Vertical and 98.5% Horizontal Boulder City: Then and Now Boulder City is a interesting and unique shops located in it’s historic downtown beautiful high oasis in district along Nevada Way. Boulder City also sponsors the desert (elevation numerous Special Events and Festivals. For instance, the 2500 ft.) with green annual Art in the Park and Spring Jamboree celebrations lawns and many clean, are recognized as the foremost art exhibitions in the Las tree-shaded streets Vegas Metropolitan area. overlooking man- A very extensive made Lake Mead and network of parks the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The city is 5 provides visitors with miles from Lake Mead, 8 miles from the Mike O'Callaghan- many recreational Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge and Hoover Dam, and 21 miles opportunities as varied south of Las Vegas, the “Entertainment Capital of the World.” as soccer, baseball, The City of Boulder City is known as the city that housed motocross, horseback over 4,000 workers during the construction of Hoover Dam, riding, model airplane which lasted from 1931 to 1935. Boulder City is still home flying, car and boat racing, BMX competitions, golf, hiking, to some of the original off-road biking, fishing, waterskiing, diving, shooting clubs, Dam workers, fondly ATVs and ziplining. called the “31ers”, and Within Boulder City there are 71 acres of landscaped their families. The City park and plaza areas, 36 miles of hiking and mountain bike was supervised and trails and year-round swimming, racquetball, shuffleboard, regulated by the tennis and basketball courts (indoor and outdoor), picnic Bureau of Reclam- tables, lighted grass ation and all land in and athletic fields and around the City was owned by the federal government. kiddie parks. There In 1958, the federal government passed the Boulder City are two municipal golf Act and established an Independent Municipal Government, courses – an 18-hole the City of Boulder City. Under this act, the federal course and a new 27- government turned over the existing home site hole course. There are (approximately 33 square miles of land), and the utility system art galleries and to residents. The City Charter (approved by the residents) specialty shops, along with quaint sidewalk dining in the prohibits gaming which makes Boulder City unique as the booming Historic District downtown. only city in Nevada where gaming is illegal. The Boulder City Municipal Airport features daily flights Boulder City’s present population of 15,302 provides a to the Grand Canyon and also skydiving. For a good hike quiet, small-town atmosphere found nowhere else in check out the River Southern Nevada. More importantly, it offers a welcome Mountain Trailhead off contrast and a dramatic alternative to the often frantic Las Highway 93 or the Vegas lifestyle. Railroad Tunnel Trail The community located at Lakeshore takes great pride in its Drive near the Lake historic past and Mead Visitor Center. abounds with cultural The River Mountain opportunities. It has a Loop Trail is a 37 mile paved trail for bikes, horses, joggers state-of-the-art and walkers. Or simply enjoy a brisk bike ride along the library and a wealth of well marked, nearby paths. www.BoulderCityChamber.com (702) 293-2034 4 2014 Boulder City Relocation and Visitor’s Guide Resized 8.25 by 10.5 to 8.125 by 10.5 and Adjusted to 100% Vertical and 98.5% Horizontal Hoover Dam Early in the Reclamation started conducting tours through the dam and 20th century, power plant in 1937. Today, close to one million visitors a both spring and year tour the dam. summer runoff, No other politician was as instrumental in the successful fed mostly by completion of this project than Herbert Hoover. A dozen snowpack in the years later, President Harry S. Truman signed Public Law highest Rocky 43, restoring the name of Hoover Dam. Mountains, The actual cost of the dam, the All-American Canal, the caused massive town of Boulder City, highways, railroads and other work destruction by floods along the 1,400-mile-long Colorado projects, was $165 million. The dam itself had a final price River and eroded millions of tons of valuable topsoil for the tag of nearly $60 million. farms and ranches along its banks. In drier years, the Hoover Colorado’s flow slowed to almost a trickle, destroying crops Dam is the and livestock. second highest After a series of studies on how to harness the power of dam in the this river, the federal government passed the Boulder Canyon whole country Project Act in 1928, just weeks after the election of Herbert and the 18th Hoover. This authorized construction of a dam and canal to highest in the control flooding and supply water to the regions of California, world. It is Nevada and Arizona. 660 feet thick Thousands of American workers (unemployed as a result at its base – as of the nation’s stock market collapse in 1929) packed up big as two football fields end to end. There is enough concrete and headed West for a job building the Boulder Dam (as it (4.5 million cubic yards) in the dam to build a two-lane was known until 1947) in the Black Canyon, on the Arizona road from Seattle, WA to Miami, FL. The dam is 726 feet and Nevada tall, almost 200 feet taller than the Washington Monument. border. Before The reservoir, Lake Mead, has a capacity of 1.24 trillion the dam could cubic feet. be built, the During peak periods of electrical demand, enough water workers had runs through the generators to fill 15 average-size swimming to divert the pools (20,000 gallons each) in one second. Hoover Dam’s wild Colorado delivery system provides water to more than 18 million people River far away in Arizona, Nevada and California. from the new MORE INFORMATION: construction site. They blasted tunnels right through the Hoover Dam is located just 30 miles southeast of Las canyon walls and the Colorado River gushed through these Vegas on US Highway 93, right at the Nevada-Arizona diversion tunnels for the next five years while more than border. The Dam tour center opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 5,000 men toiled in the dry, harsh canyon bottom. They 5 p.m. (Pacific sometimes worked in temperatures above 120 degrees in Time) daily, the shade, for a day’s wage of $4. Officially, 96 people except for died building the dam (none are actually buried in the dam, Thanksgiving despite a legend to the contrary).