Fish Ladder and the Bonneville Dam

Somewhere in Oregon on one of our drives we came across the Bonneville Dam and Fish Ladder. We decided to drop by because something like that sounds interesting when you’ve been in the car for hours. We drove into this facility that looks like a nuclear power plant and doesn’t seem like a place where the general public should be admitted. It ended up being a really interesting place, with a cool visitor center and windows into the fish ladder where you can watch the fish battle their way upstream. They put in this elaborate ladder system to allow fish to get through the dam so they can get upstream and spawn. They also count all the fish as they go through so they can estimate fish populations. Here are a few pictures.