In Nevada, Lake Mead National Recreation Area produced $358 million, far more than Great Basin National Park ($21.8 million) or Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument ($5.5 million).

This recreation area provides scenic vistas of Lake Mead and Lake Mohave with more than 700 miles of shoreline and a ... 10 Easy Getaways Read more about The 12 Most-Visited Winter Parks Blog Post The ...

and Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the top three. Lake Mead cracked the top 10 list coming in at 9 with nearly 6 million visitors last year. To check out the full report, click here.

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Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned ...

Yosemite National Park’s superintendent Cicely Muldoon will retire next month, according to an internal email she sent to her ...

Only Lake Mead National Recreation Area and the Grand Canyon National Park rank higher than Yosemite in number of park deaths with 204 and 134 fatalities, respectively. A third of the deaths at ...

Tired of being cooped up at home, visitors swarmed Lake Mead National Recreation Area on Saturday after the park opened to annual pass holders. For Kelani Mitchell, it was the longest stretch of ...

In 2022 alone, the elevation of Lake Mead has already dropped 26 feet ... ‘We’re still open’ At one point, the National Park Service maintained boat launch ramps at six locations around ...

At 1.5 million acres, Lake Mead National Recreation Area is twice the size of Rhode Island and offers plenty of solitude, even when crowded. Lake Mead is Arizona’s busiest park, yet I always seem to ...