Gavins Point Dam

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Gavins Point Dam

Tom Brokaw greeting the 20,000th visitor to the dam in 1958. Brokaw was a tour guide at the dam.

Gavins Point Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Nebraska and South Dakota, impounding Lewis and Clark Lake. The dam is located on the Nebraska-South Dakota border, west of Yankton, South Dakota.

Gavins Point Dam is the most downstream dam on the Missouri, and was built as part of the Pick-Sloan Plan . The dam area (with Lewis and Clark Lake) is a very popular regional tourist destination having hosted over one million visitors.

The stretch of the Missouri immediately downstream of Gavins Point Dam is the only significant section of non-channelized meandering stream on the lower portion of the river. This federally-designated Wild and Scenic River is among the last free-flowing stretches of the Missouri; it exhibits the islands, bars, chutes, and snags that once characterized the "Mighty Mo".

[edit] See also

• Missouri National Recreational River

[edit] References

• Gavins Point Dam. Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved on 2006-05-10.
• http://www.nps.gov/mnrr/

[edit] External links

• Gavins Point Dam is at coordinates 42°51′43″N 97°29′07″W / 42.861944, -97.485278 (Gavins Point Dam)Coordinates: 42°51′43″N 97°29′07″W / 42.861944, -97.485278 (Gavins Point Dam)