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Looking Northeast
You are standing 400 feet above the water of Boulder Basin, the westernmost end of Lake Mead. The lake's north shore is roughly six miles away.
Boulder Basin is only one-quarter of Lake Mead. The capacity of the entire lake is more than 46 billion cubic yards -- enough to store nearly two years of the Colorado River's flow. Completely filled, the lake is 500 feet deep, and more than 500 miles of shoreline ring its basins and "arms." |