When I was at a trade show in Vegas last year, I rented a Street Glide for the day and took a rider through Valley of Fire, around Mead, and through Hoover. Pretty amazing scenery. Was kind of strange in that it was so dry that although it was like 90 degrees, it felt unusually cool while riding.
Any way, I thought it was pretty interesting to read above comment that it took 6 years for Mead to fill up. The one thing I noticed right away, was the water level was drastically low. In fact, I was told it was so low it's pretty much a crisis out there, and marinas and other infrasture had to be physically moved closer to the water. When you look out from the scenic points, the water lines on the rock formations seem to be perhaps as much as 80 to 100 foot below the normal level. I'm not sure of the whole deal, but between the drought and the huge increase in population out there in the last couple of decades, at the rate they're going, there ain't going to be a Lake Mead too much longer. Pretty sad.
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