The Colorado River lake with London's own bridge over it.
Lake Havasu is a 19,300-acre Colorado River reservoir on the Arizona-California border, formed by Parker Dam in 1938 and home to Lake Havasu City — the planned desert town Robert McCulloch founded in 1963 and later gave the actual 1830s London Bridge, shipped stone by stone from England and rebuilt in 1971.
Lake Havasu sits on the Colorado River at the Arizona-California border, impounded by Parker Dam when it finished filling in 1938. In 1963, McCulloch Motors owner Robert McCulloch bought 3,500 acres of undeveloped desert on the lake's east shore to found Lake Havasu City, and in 1968 he bought London's original 1830s London Bridge after the City of London put it up for sale — it was slowly sinking into the Thames. McCulloch had the bridge's exterior granite blocks cut and shipped to Arizona, rebuilt over a newly dug channel that turned the shoreline into an island, and reopened it in 1971; it's now the second-most-visited attraction in Arizona after the Grand Canyon. Shugrue's and Barley Brothers Brewery share a channel-view complex on McCulloch Boulevard, while The Chair and Burgers By The Bridge anchor English Village at the bridge's base. Lake Havasu Marina, near the bridge, holds slips for up to 1,000 boats; Havasu Springs Resort Marina covers the lake's south end near Parker Dam itself. Unlike most lakes in this guide, Lake Havasu City is a real, full-service city — its own hospital, supermarkets, and airport, not a small town a drive away.
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