Lake Havasu City, AZ Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Forty miles southwest of Kingman, ten miles from the California border, a detour south brings you to one of the more bizarre sights of the American desert – the old gray stone of London Bridge , reaching out to an artificial island across the stagnant waters of the dammed Colorado River at LAKE HAVASU CITY . It has to be said that it looks a hell of a lot better here, with the Chemehuevi Mountains as a backdrop, than it ever did on the River Thames. The resort's developer, Robert P. McCulloch, bought the bridge (under the impression it was Tower Bridge – or so the story goes) for 2.4 million dollars in the late … more »