# Trip to Vegas from Oklahoma-how come I ended up at the Dam?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 6, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trip-to-vegas-from-oklahoma-how-come-i-ended-up-at-the-dam/563100 "2010-12-06T01:59:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trip-to-vegas-from-oklahoma-how-come-i-ended-up-at-the-dam/563100/1 "2010-12-06T01:59:12Z")

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A few years ago, I drove out to Las Vegas, taking I-40 West. The first time, all I remember was long roads, etc…  
A year later, I drove out there and drove through the Hoover dam. Not through it, of course, just through the vicinity. It sure was cool, but, I don’t know why I didn’t go by it the first time. I thought that I took the same route, but, apparently not.  
I thought I took the Kingman exit both times, and…uh, well, I guess I didn’t!

Can you tell me which two different routes I took? It must have been _somewhere around Kingman, and the routes couldn’t be that_ far apart.

Thanks,  
hh

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trip-to-vegas-from-oklahoma-how-come-i-ended-up-at-the-dam/563100/2 "2010-12-06T03:12:12Z")

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If you’re sure you went through Flagstaff on I-40, there are only a couple of options. US 93 northwest from Kingman and across Hoover Dam (until a few weeks ago) or Arizona SH-68 from Kingman to Bullhead City, across the bridge to Laughlin, then north on US 95 to Vegas. I suppose you could also have gone I-40 all the way south to Needles, then back north on US 95. There are only three ways across the Colorado for hundreds of miles downstream of the Utah border.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trip-to-vegas-from-oklahoma-how-come-i-ended-up-at-the-dam/563100/3 "2010-12-06T03:39:17Z")

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OK, so is 93 the only way across the Dam, and one of the I-95 means I avoid it? I’d bet a jillion dollars that I went through Flagstaff both times.

Thanks,  
hh