Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008 | midnight
Any summer day at Lake Mohave's Cottonwood Cove brings a crowd of trucks, trailers and boats competing for parking and launching areas.
The National Park Service is inviting the public's input about expanding or relocating parking, traffic and concessions at Cottonwood Cove and Katherine Landing at Lake Mohave.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area park planners will present and accept information from 4 to 7 p.m. Oct. 29 at the Boulder City Library, 701 Adams Blvd.
They'll do the same in Searchlight Oct. 27 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Searchlight Community Center, 200 Michael Wendell Way.
The master plan for the two areas got its last update 22 years ago, said park service spokesman Andrew Munoz, so the service needs suggestions for amenities visitors would like to see more of or see go away.
The changes could be as small as extending access roads or as big as moving boat launching areas, he said.
After collecting public input until Nov. 15 and drafting a plan, the park service will contract with an architect for blueprints but doesn't expect changes to come anytime soon. Any project will be at the mercy of budget constraints. Recent improvements at Willow Beach on Lake Mohave took almost ten years to come to fruition.
"It's all going to depend on money, and right now that's unpredictable," Munoz said.
The National Register states congestion and conflicts between lake users competing for space at the lake areas have motivated the change in development plans and environmental impact studies.
With Bullhead City and Laughlin growing in population, the register said, the National Park Service is contemplating which services inside the park are necessary.
Park service concessionaires provide lodging, marinas, houseboat rentals, dry boat storage, campsites, trailer services and retail food and gasoline facilities.
The park service is questioning if it's worth it to continue providing those things while the same services are available nearby outside of the park.
Cassie Tomlin can be reached at 948-2073 or [email protected].
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