Construction crews at Lake Mead National Recreation Area will upgrade visitor facilities throughout the park over the next six months. Scheduled upgrades include improving picnic and restroom facilities and accessibility for disabled visitors at Blue Point Spring, Rogers Spring, Echo Bay, Boulder Beach, and Cottonwood Cove.
“We’ve made both a commitment to provide quality visitor facilities and move as fast as possible to make the park accessible to all visitors,” said Superintendent Bill Dickinson.
At Blue Point Spring (located between Echo Bay and Overton, Nev.) plans have been made to construct a new accessibility compliant concrete walkway from the parking lot. Crews will also be installing a new picnic table and shelter at the location.
At Rogers Spring (located between Echo Bay and Overton, Nev.) crews will be replacing existing picnic table and shelter with new picnic tables and picnic shelters for individual and group use. The Park Service will also replace existing restrooms with new accessibility compliant restrooms.
New picnic tables and shelters will also be installed at Echo Bay near the existing restroom at the top of the main launch ramp.
At Boulder Beach there are plans to replace existing day use/picnic facility including a total of six picnic shelters, two restroom facilities and associated parking. The number of picnic tables at the site will increase from six to 17. Crews will also rehabilitate the site to comply with accessible design requirements for parking, picnic tables, barbeque grills, drinking fountains, and restrooms.
At Cottonwood Cove the Park Service plans to double the available day use/picnic shade facilities for beach users and install a disabled accessible walkway to the beach
Funding for this $885,000 project has been provided through the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act.
While the projects are underway visitors may find some of their favorite areas temporarily closed. All projects are expected to be complete by July 2011.
