Leave Las Vegas, Stop off at Hoover Dam, arrive at the Grand Canyon.
After you get out of Las Vegas the roads to the Grand Canyon are not that interesting except for passing over Hoover Dam. We stopped once to take the tour of the dam. I would not do this again, they get your money, give you a hard hat, and then put you in a room to wait. To go into the dam you are put in an elevator and dropped down a long long ways, then you walk around in some wet tunnels, at one point you get to see the turbine room, the you wait again to get out. I liked the terrazzo floors, but you can see some of those in the towers on the dam without going for the tour. Parking and walking a bit of the dam is good fun.
After you get out of Las Vegas the roads to the Grand Canyon are not that interesting except for passing over Hoover Dam. We stopped once to take the tour of the dam. I would not do this again, they get your money, give you a hard hat, and then put you in a room to wait. To go into the dam you are put in an elevator and dropped down a long long ways, then you walk around in some wet tunnels, at one point you get to see the turbine room, the you wait again to get out. I liked the terrazzo floors, but you can see some of those in the towers on the dam without going for the tour. Parking and walking a bit of the dam is good fun.
There are some nice artistic touches at Hoover Dam, like these art deco angels.
Lots of power lines to take the electricity west.
Terrazzo floor based on Mimbres Pottery Indian design.
When you traveling from Kingman AZ to Williams on INT 40 you are also traveling the path of historic RT 66. If you get off the highway you will probably see references to this.
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