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Photo: Farwestern Photo by Gregg M. Erickson, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
This massive dam built in 1941 extends for nearly a mile across the mighty Columbia River, the dam is the largest hydroelectric producer in the country. It creates a 130-mile-long Lake Roosevelt, a National Recreation Area.
The Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water. Constructed between 1933 and 1942, Grand Coulee originally had two powerhouses. The third powerhouse ("Nat"), completed in 1974 to increase energy production, makes the Grand Coulee Dam the largest power station in the United States by nameplate capacity at 6,809 MW.
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Chronicles the cultural history of the twelve tribes of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation.
The best spot for viewing the Grand Coulee Dam.
A homestead just north of Steamboat Rock.
The park takes its name from the landscape's dominating feature, Steamboat Rock, a basalt butte that rises 800 ft above the lake. The butte's plateau was used by nomadic Native American tribes and by early settlers. During the last ice age, the monolith stood as an island in the new bed of the Columbia River where it had been diverted by ice dams. Once the dams burst creating massive floods and the Scablands, the Columbia returned to its original course, leaving Steamboat Rock as a prominent feature of the dry Grand Coulee.