August 2020 – Page 2 – WANDERLUST FAMILY ADVENTURE

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial – Lincoln City, Indiana

August 31, 2020 Joseph Candora Architecture, Cemetery, Historic Markers, Historic Sites, Indiana, Memorials, National Parks Service, North America, State Parks, United States

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial is in present-day Lincoln City, Indiana. It preserves the farm site where Abraham Lincoln lived with his family from 1816 to 1830. During that time, he grew from a 7-year-old boy to a 21-year-old man. His mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and at least 27 other settlers were buried here in the Pioneer Cemetery. His sister Sarah Lincoln Grigsby was buried in the nearby Little Pigeon Baptist Church cemetery, across the street at Lincoln State Park. Included in the park is the Lincoln Living Historical Farm.

New photo by Wanderlust Family Adventure / Google Photos

Lake Mead National Recreation Area – Boulder City, Nevada

August 31, 2020 Joseph Candora Arizona, Camping, Canoeing, Dam, Hiking, Lake/Pond, National Parks Service, Nevada, North America, United States

Lake Mead National Recreation Area is a U.S. National Recreation Area located in southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona. Lake Mead NRA follows the Colorado River corridor from the westernmost boundary of Grand Canyon National Park to just north of the cities of Laughlin, Nevada and Bullhead City, Arizona. It includes all of the eponymous Lake Mead as well as the smaller Lake Mohave – reservoirs on the river created by Hoover Dam and Davis Dam, respectively – and the surrounding desert terrain and wilderness. Formation of Lake Mead began in 1935, less than a year before Hoover Dam was completed. The area surrounding Lake Mead was established as the Boulder Dam Recreation Area in 1936 and the name was changed to Lake Mead National Recreation Area in 1947. In 1964, the area was expanded to include Lake Mohave and its surrounding area and became the first National Recreation Area to be designated as such by the U.S. Congress.

At the marina be sure to walk out onto the docks, not only can you admire the boats but the swarming fish waiting to be fed are a sight to behold.

Although boating is the main attraction there are hiking and camping opportunities available.

Hoover Dam – Nevada/Arizona

August 31, 2020 Joseph Candora Architecture, Arizona, Dam, Historic Sites, Lake/Pond, Nevada, North America, Rivers, United States

Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933, it was officially renamed Hoover Dam for President Herbert Hoover by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947.
Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume (when it is full). The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam’s generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 ran along the dam’s crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened.

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument – Gunnison, Colorado

August 31, 2020 Joseph Candora Camping, Colorado, Hiking, Mountain, National Parks Service, North America, Rivers, United States

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument was promoted to National Park status in 1999. There are two primary entrances to the park: the south rim entrance is located 15 miles east of Montrose, while the north rim entrance is 11 miles south of Crawford and is closed in the winter. The park contains 12 miles of the 48-mile long Black Canyon of the Gunnison River. The national park itself contains the deepest and most dramatic section of the canyon, but the canyon continues upstream into Curecanti National Recreation Area and downstream into Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area. The canyon’s name owes itself to the fact that parts of the gorge only receive 33 minutes of sunlight a day. The shear depth of the canyon is incredible and although very different is just as magnificent a sight as the Grand Canyon in its own unique way.

George Rogers Clark National Historical Park – Vincennes, Indiana

August 31, 2020 Joseph Candora Architecture, Indiana, Memorials, National Parks Service, North America, Statue / Sculpture, United States

George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, located in Vincennes, Indiana, is on the banks of the Wabash River at what is believed to be the site of Fort Sackville. On February 25, 1779, Lieutenant Colonel George Rogers Clark, older brother of William Clark, led the capture of Fort Sackville and British Lt. Governor Henry Hamilton as part of the celebrated Illinois Campaign, which lasted from 1778 to 1779. The heroic march of Clark’s men from Kaskaskia on the Mississippi River in mid-winter and the subsequent victory over the British remains one of the most memorable feats of the American Revolution. The result of this campaign resulted in a large portion of the midwest becoming property of the newly formed United States at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War.