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twitterBoulder City Chamber promoting scenic route to Overton
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 | 2:05 a.m.
Boulder City Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jill Lagan
Overton
To get to Overton from Boulder City, MapQuest will direct you to take the 90-mile trip using U.S. 95 northwest to Interstate 15 northeast.
The Boulder City Chamber of Commerce, however, wants to send people on the scenic route through the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
The chamber recently received a $5,000 grant to create brochures to promote the newly designated Lake Mead Adventure Parkway. In local parlance, that’s the back road to Overton, using Lake Shore Drive and North Shore Drive.
The idea, chamber Executive Director Jill Lagan said, is to attract tourists from Overton to Boulder City and vice versa. The parkway begins at the Alan Bible Visitors Center on U.S. 93 and ends at the Lost City Museum in Overton.
The Adventure Parkway is a joint venture of the Boulder City chamber, the Moapa Valley Chamber of Commerce, the Lost City Museum and the National Park Service, which manages the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The Nevada Commission on Tourism provided the matching grant.
By the end of summer, Lagan said, she expects the brochures to be distributed to welcome centers in Southern Nevada and to be posted on the Web sites of all of the partners, as well as the state tourism site.
The partners also are applying to have the route designated as a federal Scenic Byway.
More info
- For more information, call the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce at 293-2034.
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why would anyone want to go to overton? "look kids...those are mormons. they're a silly, backwards people".