• The image from 2000 shows swaths of Lake Mead full of water; the image from 2022 only shows one section, known as Overton Arm, filled.
  • At maximum capacity, Lake Mead reaches an elevation 1,220 feet (372 meters) near the dam and would hold 9.3 trillion gallons (36 trillion liters) of water.
  • https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/File:Metallic_Monks.ogg. “There's a chance I could crash us all in to the middle of Lake Mead, that place seems to attract aircraft for some reason.”—
  • Since that time I would guess that Lake Powell now absorbs the annual peaks and troughs once seen in the Lake Mead data, and acts as a buffer for Lake Mead.
  • ...Lake Mead has dropped by more than 23 feet, which is astounding considering its massive size – from one end to the other, Lake Mead stretches 120 miles.
  • Extreme hikers and bikers can find challenging trails in the 185,000 acres of backcountry of the nine protected wilderness areas of the Lake Mead NRA.
  • If the reservoir dips below 895 feet (272.8 meters) – about 150 feet (45 meters) lower than where it is now – Lake Mead would reach what’s called dead-pool level.
  • Fishing Both Lake Mohave and Lake Mead offer excellent fishing year-round for trout, largemouth and striped bass, channel catfish, crappie, and bluegill.
  • Its epitaph might read: Here lay the waters of Lake Mead. Dead, rotting fish sit upright in cracks of a dried lakebed. The lake bed is now a graveyard.
  • See 663 photos and 20 tips from 6501 visitors to Lake Mead. "Beautiful scenery you should see if you are in Vegas.