Lake Mead National Recreation Area News

The National Park Service says it is increasing police patrols to stop illegal off-highway vehicle use and vandalism in wilderness areas in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area southeast of Boulder City.

LAS VEGAS -- The federal Interior Department will spend $16.7 million in stimulus funds to improve roads at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in southern Nevada.

Workers Rich Parks and Zach Inman, right, talk with each other Wednesday at the construction site of the entrance fee station to Cottonwood Cove at Lake Mohave.

Alan O'Neil, left, the executive director of the Outside Las Vegas Foundation, walks through a banner to symbolically open the new "Neon to Nature" trails at a National Trails Day event at the Henderson Pavilion.

America's national parks will be celebrating National Public Lands Day, Saturday, September 26 with a day of service and celebration by hosting special events and waiving entrance fees.

The Las Vegas area is in for another warm, sunny day today, the last day of summer.

The National Park Service says a 45-year-old California man has drowned in Lake Mohave while trying to rescue his daughter.

LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Nev. - More than $135 million has been approved for restoration and improvement projects at Lake Tahoe and throughout Nevada.

The National Park Service is expecting over 100,000 visitors to Lake Mead National Recreation Area over the Labor Day weekend.

Five people were hurt by an explosion on their boat at the fuel dock in the Callville Bay Marina out at Lake Mead.

A tour helicopter on its way to the Grand Canyon made an emergency landing after striking a bird .

Share + Aug 11, 2009 10:16 am US/Central 1 of 1 A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky early August 12, 2008 near Rogers Spring in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada.

By Glen Creno The Arizona Republic National parks such as the Grand Canyon are letting visitors in free during three weekends this summer in an effort to appeal to budget travelers.

A man who died of exposure in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area was in the desert for days before he perished.

The pilot of a tour helicopter returning from the Grand Canyon has made an emergency landing in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, the second to do so this week.

Lane restrictions will be in effect Thursday while crews install new traffic signal poles at the intersection of Decatur Boulevard and Alta Drive in Las Vegas.

Park rangers say an Arizona man has died of exposure in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area after his SUV got stuck in the sand.

The pilot of a tour helicopter returning from the Grand Canyon made an emergency landing in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area after a bird hit the windshield.

The pilot of a tour helicopter returning from the Grand Canyon made an emergency landing in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area after a bird hit the windshield.

The pilot of a tour helicopter returning from the Grand Canyon made an emergency landing in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area after a bird hit the windshield.