The Dalles Lock and Dam:

The brochure we picked up about this dam on the Columbia River showed that tours were conducted daily. We arrived promptly at 9:00 am to find that they stopped the tours 3-years ago - duh! Then why don't they change the brochure. 10 other people arrived after us and were quite angry that the Army Corp of Engineers has brochures that with inaccurate information. Oh well.....government.

Anyway.....The Dalles Lock and Dam is 192 miles upstream from the mouth of the Columbia River. The dam is 1.5 miles wide from the Oregon to the Washington shores with the major part of the dam being in Washington due to following the original center of the river as the boundary(just like the Colorado River between Arizona and California).

The dam has a navigation lock, spillway, powerhouse and fish passage facilities on both sides. Power production is the name of the game with this dam. The dam was built in 1957.



The following two pictures are of fishing stands projecting from the cliffs. The first Indians to the area fished this way and the tradition continues even now.