The Hoover Dam Tour Company offers the BEST DAM TOURS IN TOWN! We are sure that you will enjoy. Anyone of the tours we offer. Our Premium Las Vegas Tours include motor coach trips, airplane and helicopter combination tours. We even offer a boat cruise and a float trip that departs from the base of Hoover Dam.

Viewing this magnificent, massive man made structure creates a respect for man's accomplishments. The strong desire to harness nature's power drove the human mind and body to build Hoover Dam in the hottest, driest area of the United States. In doing so, the seasonal flooding of the Colorado River was eliminated and millions of people now have drinking water and irrigation during the dry season.

Come see how the construction men of the Hoover Dam triumphed over environmental and engineering difficulties to complete the monumental task to build the largest dam known to man in 1935.

At the onset of construction the dam location had been changed from Boulder Canyon to Black Canyon. Men in the need of work came to this desolate, wild, and hot area to earn a living during the United State's great depression. Arriving with families, a tent community was born.

 The life was rugged with no electricity, an average temperature of 119 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius) during the day, poor sanitary conditions and poor water set the stage for communities know as "Ragtowns." In order to improve their quality of life and to save people from disease, electricity came to the area and Boulder City was established. A school, church, post office and other supporting facilities where created for the families.