Frenchman Mountain

Lake Mead

Frenchman Mountain is the prominent peak in the mountain range that forms the eastern border of the Las Vegas Valley. It has spectacular veiws of the Las Vegas Valley to the West and Lake Mead to the East. This is a steep hike that kicks ass.

Lake Mead is the largest man-made 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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