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Article: Mead magic: boating on colossal Lake Mead offers experiences as grand as the lake itself.(TBM Destination)
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- Trailer Boats
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- October 1, 2004
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If you hear that it would take a lifetime to fully explore Lake Mead, believe it. Stretching from massive Hoover Dam in the west to the eastern entrance of Grand Canyon National Park, this 110-mile-long desert waterway is the centerpiece of Lake Mead National Recreation Area, which also encompasses 67-mile-long Lake Mohave. Blessed with abundant sunshine, it embodies the boating paradox so common to the Colorado River chain of lakes--a deep, clear reservoir set amidst one of the most parched, yet strikingly beautiful deserts on Earth. The more's the pity that most boaters never venture beyond Boulder Basin--the lake's huge, lower portion that's situated closest to Las ...