Lake Havasu City, AZ February 25 thru March 17
Lake Havasu City was founded in 1960’s. The lake was created when the Parker Dam was built in the 1930’s. During WWII there was an emergency landing strip and the area was used by servicemen for recreation, mainly fishing. Robert McCulloch needed a place to test his boat motors and he chose Lake Havasu. He moved what they refer to as the “London Bridge” from England in the early 1970’s, rebuilding it and then dredged a channel, forming an island, from the former peninsula. The local Museum of History takes claim to fame that this was the first planned community. There are a lot of summer homes for people, mainly from CA, and the planned community never really took off. He did fly people in from as far as New England in the 1970’s trying to get them to relocate here. Kayaking in the lake was fun but the water was only 52 degrees. The Colorado River is fed by the mountain snows and it is cold year round. Bob did attend a bluegrass festival which was good. We are not certain why people come to the lake in the summer when the temperature is over 130 degrees besides for the fact that this is the only fresh water in the area.
Lake Havasu City was founded in 1960’s. The lake was created when the Parker Dam was built in the 1930’s. During WWII there was an emergency landing strip and the area was used by servicemen for recreation, mainly fishing. Robert McCulloch needed a place to test his boat motors and he chose Lake Havasu. He moved what they refer to as the “London Bridge” from England in the early 1970’s, rebuilding it and then dredged a channel, forming an island, from the former peninsula. The local Museum of History takes claim to fame that this was the first planned community. There are a lot of summer homes for people, mainly from CA, and the planned community never really took off. He did fly people in from as far as New England in the 1970’s trying to get them to relocate here. Kayaking in the lake was fun but the water was only 52 degrees. The Colorado River is fed by the mountain snows and it is cold year round. Bob did attend a bluegrass festival which was good. We are not certain why people come to the lake in the summer when the temperature is over 130 degrees besides for the fact that this is the only fresh water in the area.
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