About this campground
The Carson National Fish Hatchery, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, began rearing salmon and trout in 1937. Carson National Fish Hatchery produces 1.17 million spring Chinook smolts (young salmon) annually, including 250,000 smolts for tribal efforts to restore salmon to the Walla Walla River Basin. This program has the goal of producing a naturally spawning, self-sustaining population of spring Chinook in the Walla Walla Basin. The hatchery also helps mitigate for fish losses in the Columbia River Basin due to the impacts of main stem hydropower, and contributes to important tribal ceremonial and subsistence fisheries as well as non-tribal sport fisheries.
Getting there
Carson National Fish Hatchery is at the confluence of Tyee Creek and the Wind River, 14 miles north of the Columbia River, about 60 miles east of Vancouver, Washington. To visit the hatchery, turn north off State Route 14 at the Wind River Highway, about 3 miles east of Stevenson, WA, and continue for 14 miles to the hatchery.
Activities
- INFORMATION SITE
- INTERPRETIVE PROGRAMS
- VISITOR CENTER
- WILDLIFE VIEWING
- FISH HATCHERY
- ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
- PICNICKING
Nearby federal campgrounds
- Beaver CampgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest1 mi
- GOVT MINERAL SPRINGS GUARD STAGifford Pinchot National Forest2 mi
- Panther Creek campgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest5 mi
- Paradise Creek campgroundGifford Pinchot National Forest6 mi
- Forest Road 30/Wind River HighwayGifford Pinchot National Forest7 mi
- Trailhead: Thomas LakeGifford Pinchot National Forest11 mi
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Carson National Fish Hatchery doesn't take campsite reservations — but plenty of nearby Washington campgrounds do, and we'll alert you the moment a sold-out site opens up.
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