Lake Mead National Recreation Area
~ minutes from Las Vegas, behind Hoover Dam
Lake Mead is the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the United States, containing enough water to flood the entire state of New York with 1 ft. of water (26 million acre ft.). It is located on the Colorado River in Nevada and Arizona, about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada.
The lake was created by the completion of Hoover Dam in 1935. Lake Mead National Recreation Area includes these waters as well as 1.5 million acres surrounding them. The recreation area provides a wide variety of unique outdoor recreation opportunities ranging from warm-water recreation to exploration of rugged and isolated backcountry.
World-class fishing and water sports just minutes from Las Vegas
Visitors to Lake Mead NRA will find spectacular scenic vistas from park roads, the lake surface, and non-structured walks. Striking backdrops for all recreational activities include deep canyons, dry washes, sheer cliffs, distant mountain ranges, the lakes, colorful soils and rock formations and mosaics of different vegetation.
Average Air & Water Temperatures
• Lake Mead, Nevada • |
| Month |
High |
Low |
Water |
| Jan |
60° |
38° |
54° |
| Feb |
68° |
41° |
54° |
| March |
73° |
48° |
55° |
| April |
82° |
54° |
57° |
| May |
92° |
65° |
68° |
| June |
102° |
74° |
72° |
| July |
108° |
81° |
80° |
| Aug |
106° |
80° |
84° |
| Sept |
99° |
71° |
78° |
| Oct |
85° |
57° |
70° |
| Nov |
68° |
44° |
63° |
| Dec |
58° |
37° |
58° |
All temps in Fahrenheit and averaged historically.
Sources: weather.com / nps.gov |
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Lake Mead is the western home of the Striped Bass, Bluegill, Largemouth Bass, Crappie and Channel Catfish. Fishing for stripers and largemouth bass is good throughout Lake Mead with crappie, blue gill, green sunfish, and catfish being more prevalent in the upper Overton Arm of the lake. The desert climate offers fishing throughout the year with winter Crappie fishing excellent during the winter months.
Temple Bar Marina's location provides almost year 'round perfect weather for enjoying outdoor activities from hiking to boating to wildlife viewing. The waters of Lake Mead are clear, and provide ideal conditions for watersports like waterskiing, tubing and touring via personal watercraft, boating, and fishing. Temple Bar is a skier's dream, with unobstructed runs of 20 miles in either direction.
Enjoy hundreds of miles of beautiful shoreline set within the red rocks of America's Southwest with a houseboat vacation from Temple Bar Marina on Lake Mead. It's the perfect way to put yourself in the middle of it all and enjoy everything that the lake has to offer.
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