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Hawk Creek waterfall. In a region renowned for towering trees, soaring mountains, deep gorges, and expansive wilderness, Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area can rightfully claim a place among the Pacific Northwest's outstanding resources. The largest lake in the area, Lake Roosevelt is ideal for motor boating, water-skiing, sailing, and fishing. In the surrounding sagebrush hills and forested mountains, you can camp, picnic, hike, hunt, and sightsee.

The creation of this sprawling recreation area began with 24 million tons of concrete and steel: Grand Coulee Dam. A Goliath of a dam, it was built to turn the power of the Columbia River into electricity and turn vast deserts into productive farmlands. Today the recreation area preserves in their

natural settingreminders of the days when American Indians fished and free-flowing Columbia River and fur trappers, farmers, missionaries, and soldiers first worked and settled this region. Here, the new and old coexist side by side.

Those portions of Lake Roosevelt and shoreline within the Colville and Spokane Indian reservations are managed by the Colville Confederated Tribes and the Spokane Tribe of Indians. The National Park Service administers the remainder as Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, and since 1946 has acted as caretaker of the area's rich natural resources and human history.


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