• The calm, inviting waters of the Spokane Arm. Photo Credit: NPS\LARO\John Salisbury

    Lake Roosevelt

    National Recreation Area Washington

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Paddle Days

A family canoeing. Parents and two children paddling on the lake.

Family canoeing on the lake.

NPS

9th ANNUAL PADDLE DAYS
Saturday,
July 21, 2007
11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Join Park Rangers and Volunteers for a WET day of family fun. Here is your chance to try a new water sport for FREE!
  • Learn how to paddle a canoe
  • Experience the fun of rowing
  • Cool down as you tube behind the National Park DARE boat.
  • Join the Rickey Point Sail Club and try your hand at sailing!
  • Take a new look at the lake while snorkeling.
  • Have fun learning about water safety from the United States Power Squadron.
  • And for the toddlers we have a kiddie pool (accompanied by their parents)
     
    Sailboat loading visitors for a short tour of the lake. White sailboat with sail up.
    Volunteers from the Rickey Point Sail Club offer their time and boats to give visitors a taste of sailing on Lake Roosevelt at the park's annual Paddle Days.
    ©Jeff Tetrick

    Did You Know?

    Wild hyacinth is also known as the douglas brodaia

    The pretty violet flowers of this wild hyacinth grows at Lake Roosevelt. An important food source, its small but sweet onion bulb is still popular. Covered by a fibrous netting called a corm net, excavated and carbon dated corm nets established that people lived at Kettle Falls 9,500 years ago.