Highway 95 Lake Havasu
— — the desert road that keeps the lake on one shoulder.
Not only on a wall.
“The stretch of Arizona 95 that hugs the eastern shore of Lake Havasu, between Parker Dam to the south and the Bridgewater Channel at Lake Havasu City. A reservoir on the lower Colorado River, held back since 1938, blue against the bare Mohave brown. The road passes the relocated London Bridge, the marinas, and the pull-offs where families park trailers and watch the channel traffic. From the highway the lake reads as a long blue ribbon under a sky that does most of its work in the late afternoon.
Highway 95 Lake Havasu, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Lake Havasu is a 19,300-acre reservoir on the lower Colorado River, formed in 1938 when Parker Dam was completed. Arizona 95 runs north and south along the Arizona shore and is the main street of Lake Havasu City, the planned community founded in 1963 by industrialist Robert P. McCulloch. The lake holds the California state line on its western shore and the surface sits at about 450 feet above sea level. Lake Havasu State Park and Cattail Cove State Park anchor the public access on the Arizona side.
The London Bridge sits across the Bridgewater Channel off Arizona 95, the original 1831 granite arch bridge from London that Robert McCulloch bought in 1968 for about 2.46 million dollars, shipped block by numbered block, and reassembled by 1971. The bridge spans about 930 feet and now carries city traffic over the channel that was dredged to create Pittsburgh Point. It is the second most visited site in Arizona after the Grand Canyon by some Arizona Office of Tourism counts.
Summer on Lake Havasu runs long and hot. Lake Havasu City regularly sees July highs above 110 degrees Fahrenheit and is one of the hotter inhabited places in the United States. The lake stays open year-round and the surface stays well above 60 degrees through most winter weeks, which is why the snowbird population from the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada doubles the city through the cooler months. Spring break in March and the Desert Storm Poker Run in April draw the largest crowds.