Bonneville Dam, located on the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington, is a great place to visit for free. It has two visitor centers-one on the Oregon side at Bradford Island and one on the Washington shore-open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Both centers have underwater viewing windows where you can watch salmon, steelhead, and other fish swim upstream through the fish ladders. The dam also offers observation decks with views of the river, the powerhouse, and the dam’s spillway. Visitors ca

This year’s sockeye salmon run on the Columbia River has passed the half-million mark and continues to beat forecasts and set records. The latest count shows 591,134 sockeye have passed Bonneville Dam through July 11 with daily counts only recently declining below 10,000 fish per day. The modern-day record passage at Bonneville Dam of 614,179 set in 2014 still stands, but sockeye are expected to continue to return in good numbers for another week or two, so the record could still be broken. The