Damn Dam

Where is the Dam tour???!



Hoover Dam

Nothing is more exciting than a Dam tour.

Hoover Dam is worth the damn drive outside Las Vegas. And yes, you can still tour inside the Dam no mater what other damn people have to say.



The Turbines.

You can buy Dam tour tickets online but those tickets are limited for as you only get to see the giant turbines. If you spend twice that amount, you get to stick your hand (or small head) outside the Dam for a picture of the Dam plus you get too see the exit stairwell. Serious.

Tickets to the full Dam tour go on sale daily at 9 am, and it's a first come, first serve bases. Since Vegas can be damn hot, walking about the Dam with a zillion tons of concrete it's damn hotter. Much damn hotter. Therefore I highly recommend you plan on starting your Dam Day at the Dam tour at 9:00 am. Plus its cool inside the Dam. You want the more expensive Dam tickets just for that damn reason.



The view outside the Dam looking up...if your head fits.

 Once you buy your Dam tickets, you'll see a Dam video on the construction of the Dam and the Dam details. Afterwards, you get ushered into a damn small elevator for the Dam tour. The first part of the tour there is a lot of damn people. Some of those people have the half price Dam tour tickets. After 20-30 minutes, the cheap ticket people get escorted out the the Dam and the rest of the group wonders deeper into he Dam. The best stop is the place where you do get to stick your hand (head) out of the Dam and take a dam picture. Don't worry, there is Dam safety and the holes are not that damn big.

Then you walk inside more damn narrow hallways to see other Dam sights including the exit stairs. (I agree, they were not that damn exciting.) To exit the Dam tour, you will get escorted out the original elevators for the Dam tour. Look at them. The brass and the Dam artwork is quite impressive. And then the Dam tour is over.

Once you leave the Dam tour, head back to where you started. You'll have to go through Dam security (impart thanks to 9-11) and bypass the damn maze of a people and totally ignore the lines. (Don't worry, those lines of people are for the Dam tours.) Head for the stairs. You paid for the entrance into the Dam museum and it's worth visiting. You get to see more Dam details and Dam facts and see Dam artifacts. After all the Dam viewing head up one more flight of stairs to the rooftop for the golden view of the Dam. Almost golden. It's worth the picture taking of your loved ones with a damn Dam in the background.

Once you've had your Dam fill of the Dam, drive a half a mile or so, and park at the lot that allow you to cross the new bridge. Don't let all those damn stairs or the damn heat scare you way; it's damn with the Dam photos you will get.

Have a Dam good time.

http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/service/index.html