Black Mesa

Lake Mead

Black Mesa in Lake Mead National Recreation Area has a relatively flat summit over a mile in length from North to South and nearly a half mile wide at the mid-point. This is one of my favorite hikes in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Lake Mead is the largest manmade reservoir in the United States, spanning over 110 miles long in Nevada and Arizona. When Lake Mead is at its fullest, it boasts 759 miles of shoreline, is 532 feet deep, has 247 square miles of surface and 28 millions-acre feet of water. Three of America’s four desert ecosystems – the Mojave, the Great Basin, and the Sonoran Deserts meet in Lake Mead.

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