Gavins Point Dam is a 1.9-mile-long embankment rolled-earth and chalk-fill dam which spans the Missouri River and impounds Lewis and Clark Lake. The dam joins Cedar County, Nebraska with Yankton Count
Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River, impounding Lewis and Clark Lake.
Tom Brokaw greeting the 20,000th visitor to the dam in 1958. Brokaw was once a tour guide at the dam.
The dam releasing a record 150,000 cubic feet per second (4,200 m3/s) of water on June 14, 2011 as a result of the 2011 Missouri River Floods. The release was more than twice the previous record set in 1997.
Aerial photo of Gavins Point Dam and Lewis and Clark Lake, looking north.
The Chief Standing Bear Memorial Bridge is a bridge across the Missouri River at the Nebraska–South Dakota border. Located near Niobrara, Nebraska, not far downstream from the confluence of the Niobra
The bridges as seen from the scenic overlook on the South Dakota side