Why Nobody Visits Lake Havasu, Arizona Like This Anymore

Lake Havasu wasn’t discovered. It was sold. For fifteen years, Robert McCulloch paid to fly strangers into the Arizona desert, put them in a hotel, feed them, show them the lake—and ask them to imagine staying. Then he bought London Bridge, shipped it across an ocean, rebuilt it on dry ground, and dug the water underneath afterward. The plan worked. The flights disappeared. The bridge stayed. This is the remarkable story of the sales trip that built an American city. #lakehavasucity #springbreak #roadtrip