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Las Vegas, Nevada is about a 260 miles from Phoenix, Arizona where I live. These photographs were from a trip to see family of friends. The bypass bridge that spans the Black Canyon of the Colorado River was completed and it is possible to park the car and walk across it as a pedestrian. It is an arch bridge that literally soars across the canyon. This bridge saves at least half of an hour in the travel time to Las Vegas by bypassing the switchbacks and the drive across the top of the dam.
The Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge is an arch bridge in the United States that spans the Colorado River between the statesof Arizona and Nevada. The bridge is located within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area approximately 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, and carries Interstate 11 and U.S. Route 93 over the Colorado River. Opened in 2010, it was the key component of the Hoover Dam Bypass project, which rerouted US 93 from its previous routing along the top of Hoover Dam and removed several hairpin turns and blind curves from the route.
