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Lake Roosevelt National Recreation AreaWooden buildings of Fort Colvile.
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Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area
Things To Do
 
Ranger-led canoe trip. Visitors paddling on the back water of the lake under a walking bridge.

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Visitors on a ranger-led canoe program.

Many visitors don’t realize there is more to Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area than just, boating, fishing and camping.

 

Picnic, Swim, or Walk Down by the Water
There are 10 designated swimbeaches maintained by the National Park Service that include picnic areas, playgrounds and much more.

Rent a Boat
Several concessionaires rent house boats and other water craft on the lake.

Historic Lake Roosevelt
Tour the grounds of Historic Fort Spokane, a US Military post and an Indian Boarding school or St. Paul’s Mission, the oldest standing Catholic Mission in Washington State.

Visit Grand Coulee Dam 
The Grand Coulee Dam is located 90 miles west of Spokane, Washington on State Highway 155. The dam is almost a mile long and 550 feet high. Grand Coulee is North America's largest hydroelectric plant with a generating capacity of 6,809,000 kilowatts.
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Want to learn more?
Our bookstore contains many titles about the natural and cultural history of this area.
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Wild hyacinth is also known as the douglas brodaia  

Did You Know?
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.

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Last Updated: December 13, 2006 at 14:10 EST