The folks from Grand Canyon Tour Company can pick you up at your Las Vegas hotel, take you to the canyon and show you this wonderful spectacle via bus, airplane or helicopter. You can reserve any tour directly from this USATourist web page at special discount prices. Las Vegas is a great oasis. Las Vegas is located at the southern tip of Nevada in a broad flat basin surrounded by barren mountains. The city itself forms a huge oasis in this desert valley.
Palm trees line the streets, green grass and flowering shrubs surround the homes.
This illusion is maintained by the millions of gallons of water imported from nearby Lake Mead and the massive amounts of electricity provided by Boulder Dam. The land in Nevada is rugged, forbidding and sparsely populated yet strangely beautiful. It it is characterized by hundreds of small parallel mountain ranges interspersed with countless desert valleys. The infrequent rainstorms in the mountains cause violent erosion that carves deep canyons and disgorges sediment into the dry valleys. At times, the mineral-laden water forms broad shallow lakes that dry up in the intense heat leaving gleaming white salt flats.