Historic Railroad Trail

While visiting my uncle in Las Vegas, during my 2022 road trip, one of the things I wanted to do was visit Hoover Dam, because I wasn’t allowed to enter during my previous visit. As I checked-out what was nearby, I noticed that Lake Mead National Recreation Area was in the same area, so I proposed to my uncle that we hike part of these trail that passes through multiple tunnels that were built to allow the passage of a railroad back in the day. The railroad is gone, parts of which can be seen cast aside below the trail, but the tunnels remain. During the entire out-and-back hike, Lake Mead, already severely low in the spring of 2022, can be seen down below in the north. The tunnels were cool, both figuratively and physically, and a bit unsettling at times to pass through. Some of the entrances and exits featured shipping containers, open on both sides, that let you pass through the threshold without, I’m presuming, worrying about rocks falling on your head and killing you. While I didn’t expect to pass through more than three tunnels, due to the length, some specification on the hiking app was incorrect and we made it through all six of them. While the hike out was uphill and breezy, the return was all downhill under the sun with not much of a breeze at all.