I grew up in Christmas and Globe, both near the dam. Thanks fro the memories

I never knew about the Horseshoe Dam, only the lake, went there twice as a teen...but WOW! That's so cool! I will definitely be checking that out! thanks for sharing!

Horseshoe Dam is one of my favorites. You were walking under the "Sheep Walk" which was used to herd sheep under the dam spillway. I have kayaked to the upper end of the lake and hiked to Sheep's Bridge. The bridge is worth visiting as well as the hot spring.

Really great video. Now I have to go visit the Horseshoe dam. I really liked how you can walk under the water.

My grandfather used to be the operator of that dam back in the late 60's early 70's

That's a really cool damn. I've never seen anything like that design.

Did Coolidge Dam in November 2021 -- darned near bone dry! I liked the presentation of Teddy Roosevelt Dam more -- but just barely. On Coolidge, I loved the railings with the "C" and backwards "C" as in Calvin Coolidge. Drove a service road to get to the face of the dam to see the eagles from below -- well worth it. Pretty decent dam hunter you are!

I love your dam video. Your dam facts are really cool. Thanks

Hi, I not seen you until now. This is a cool looking dam, I would love to go their! Thanks!

My daughter went to ASU for her undergrad degree and said it is pretty obvious driver's ed is not required to get a license in Arizona. The drivers are terrible.

Really interesting video! Well made.

I like interactive dams.

Well, DAM! You did it again! Informative video!

Horseshoe dam, yeah, awesom

Wow, Jessie... you could totally horseshoe around at Horseshoe Dam!!! Great video!

That drive across the damn 😮

Thank you for the explanation and visual for an acre foot of water. 😀So many news programs love to talk about how full or empty reservoirs are but neglect to explain what an acre foot of water looks like!

For the record, as a member of the public, you CANNOT drive across Horseshoe dam. There's a gate blocking the way. What he saw here were likely some dam maintenance engineers! 😉Or perhaps local ranchers who have express access. One of the really interesting thing about this dam is seeing the effectual casting marks from the wooden forms used to create the dam. They don't do things like that anymore! That video shows maybe 1000-1500 CFS flowing over the dam. Here's a video I took a few years back with a far greater volume... kzfaq.info66i71Hjw5Mc?feature=share The purpose of this dam is strictly flood control of the Verde River. It fills in the winter and spring and is drawn down during the summer. It supplies Bartlett Lake downstream which then releases water to be used by the tribes and for the canal system in Mesa and Phoenix (via Granite Reef diversion dam) which originally supplied farmers but also supplies some municipal drinking water as well, IIRC.

Thanks Jesse that is an interesting damn with the domes.

Pretty different content from what usually shows up on my homepage, but it was interesting. And I do live in Arizona.

Nice Cactii

For many years driving across the skirt of the dam was the only way to go hunting or for the ranchers to run their animals. Up stream and up a small draw is a natural spring where Bootleggers had a still back in the 1920's. I was taken there by one of the workers back 50 years or so when I was a young boy. Walk, horse or mule travel only. It is remote.

Like the video😊😊😊💖💖

Thanks for sharing. Great info and nice to see Arizona is (at this time) saved from a serious water shortage.

This was a cool video. Thank you. Great information

Agree about the details. Art Deco esq. Many public works from Carnegie et al are beautifully detailed

Horseshoe Lake is my favorite lake to fish for Large Mouth Bass. I haven’t fished it recently because it’s so low. But now you say 92% full. I am in hog heaven. Can’t wait to fish it again.

AZ native! jealous of your drone shots, cant wait to get one!! Awesome and beautiful videos!

😂 I live off the Carefree Highway in winter. I will definitely check out the Horseshoe dam.

Might I suggest some reading: "Lake Pleasant" (Images of America) and " Verde River: Bartlett and Horseshoe Dams" both by yours truly Gerard Giordano. Not necessarily a commercial, they're available free at local public libraries.

6:30 will check that one out next time, very nice.

Thanks!

Really cool views!

I remember early 2000's wanted to fish San Carlos lake that lake it was way down sure has filled up. Went out to Horseshoe when they were releasing 15000CPS the wall of water was amazing could walk under it.

Really enjoy your channel and your great drone video shots and chill presentation. Seeing a lot of AZ makes me feel a little closer to my son who moved to Scottsdale and daughter who is attending college in Phoenix.

Great damn video!

Excellent video and thanks for the road / vehicle advice. Keep cool Jessie.

The high tension music was a humorous touch.

You might enjoy the small dams on silver creek and the little Colorado in Show Low and Woodruff ....

It only took two years of above average precipitation to raise the lakes a little. Now we will pump it all back out again. We can't pump out more than goes in and expect it to last and we have to pump it out because life.

Here's a dam bone 4U ... The Ash Fork Bainbridge Steel Dam was the first large steel dam in the world, and one of the only three ever built in the United States. Out of the three that were built in the United States it is the only one that stilll holds water.🐟🐠

Driving across that dam didn't seem safe. They didn't look like official vehicles. 🤔 Very cool that you can walk underneath it.

"It was an important day in the history of the town," Joseph Reed Chesley said. The day of the dedication, March 4, 1930, Coolidge Dam corralled little water. Speaker Will Rogers quipped that if he owned the reservoir he'd "mow it." This has long been a local legend. Search for ARIZONA MEMORY PROJECT. I also have some pics of some locals that drove their jetskis up from Bartlett (dragging them in some places) all the way to the dam to ride in the tide pool below the dam. I think this was back in 2003/2004 time frame, and was quite an adventure, as the current coming down was a good 5mph or faster through some parts from Horseshoe into Bartlett. I was not part of the group.

The 101 and 202 where you can do 5mph over the speed limit and get passed like you just threw out a anchor from your trunk or pickup bed. I'm from the east coast and big cities are like this but, not so careless. Rarely do you see people going the wrong way but, it's normal here. I'm gonna check out the Coolidge dam and go for a dip when it's 110 degrees

Hopefully with the windfall from this past winter is used responsibly

Just a few of the dams in Arizona, let's see if you video the ones we used to service twice a year for maintenance.

San Carlos reservoir has only been full, I think, twice in its history. It was originally designed with power generation which was il considered, given the nature of the ebb and flow of the reservoir, and hasn't been in operation for decades. Part of the reason it is never full is because of all the upstream dams. What this dams primary purpose is is to provide the tribes downstream (Pima and Maricopa, primarily) tribe with irrigation water. This, it was built, is owned, and operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. That is done, in part, with the diversion dam just outside Florence Arizona at the end of, unsurprisingly, Diversion Dam Road, along which, you can see some interesting structures. However, the road is fenced off well over a mile from the dam itself, so you can't actually get to it without trespassing on government land, something I don't recommend. The dam was designed in classic "Neo-gothic" style, hence the Eagles and the geometric surfaces next to the spillways. The bridges over the washes and so on approaching the dam are also original to the construction. You CAN drive around the reservoir and it can be worth the trip. Just know that to get to the dam itself, you have to do a bit of rural driving and it'll take you about half an hour after you leave US 60. You are also prominently reminded that you are on reservation land, so behave yourselves accordingly. As to the dam's stability, Recall that it is usually at LESS than 20% capacity, so it isn't really in any danger of collapse. What should worry people is if there is ever a serious inflow of water again, though such an inflow has not occurred in 30 years.

We used to spend the night below horseshoe catfishing and play on those rocks below the dam. There was neve water running over the actual dam, but still not the safest.

I live in Phoenix and I have a comfortable high clearance vehicle and go pro. I would love to take you to some hard to reach locations. I can’t get enough exploring.

Easy to DRIVE across ... but WALKING 🚶‍♂️ might be DANGEROUS 😮

Well I'll be dammed!

Another great video. I'd never heard of Coolidge Dam before. I often wonder what the trajectory of the United States would have been like had Coolidge decided to run for re-election in 1928, an election which he almost certainly would have won. Thanks for the dam tour!

Is that still flowing over? We were out there a couple months back when it was really flowing.

Our dam does not allow drones in the vicinity. It was dedicated in 1963 by jfk just before he was assasinated

Burro is Spanish for donkey.. i think you meant to say a mule or donkey..

Where can I get some Dam bait.

Phoenix, aka the new LA. Thanks California.

Mapquest? What century are you from?

Leaving the dam operators Giggity

seems like global warming making record snowfalls a good thing............

A dam that is full of water in an area that has weather over 100 degrees every day?

Who uses mapquest???? You don't look old enough to know mapquest

Burros and Donkeys are the same animal and their scientific name is Equus Asinus.

That ear ring has got to go.....

Those concrete domes are badly exfoliating...failure is eminent.

It’s BUT-ress, not bute-ress