Just a just a few miles downstream from Lake Mead along the Colorado River, you’ll find pristine Lake Mohave. Or rather, you may not find it, as Lake Mohave is shockingly remote, given that it’s only an hour from the Las Vegas Strip. The few paved roads lead down to just three marinas and campgrounds on the mostly unspoiled shores of this 67-mile-long pool of royal blue velvet water surrounded by dusty, desert canyons along the Nevada-Arizona border. Formed in 1951 by Davis Dam just above Laughlin, Nevada, the lake was created to help regulate flow from the Hoover Dam. Recreation here has definitely been more of an afterthought than it has on the shores of its big sister, or at bustling Lake Havasu farther south.