The Lake Mead National Recreation Area is only a short 32km (20 miles) drive southeast of the Las Vegas strip along the I-515 S and takes 25 minutes. It’s 290 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

Lake Mead has dropped about 2 feet since the beginning of June as drought conditions continue to worsen across Nevada.

Las Vegas has now gone 212 days without rain, ... Lake Mead, which is in Nevada and Arizona, reached drastically low levels in the summer of 2022 after years of drought, ...

Lake Mead and the “bathtub ring” are shown at Hoover Dam outside Boulder City on April 11, 2023. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) ...

The coroner identified the remains as Thomas Erndt of Las Vegas, Nevada. "Mr. Erndt was 42 years old at the time of his reported drowning on Aug. 2, 2002," Dan Kulin said in a press release.

Human remains discovered at Boulder Beach on Lake Mead in Nevada during July and August 2022 have been identified as a 52-year-old man who disappeared in 1998, according to the Clark County ...

Skeletal Remains Found in Nevada's Lake Mead Identified as Las Vegas Man Who Drowned 49 Years Ago. The Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner said the remains found last year belong ...

With the glaring exception of Lake Mead, nearly all major Nevada reservoirs have hit at least 80% storage capacity. ... But mild weather in Las Vegas is likely coming to an end.