Grand Coulee Dam announces summer season hours

The Grand Coulee Dam visitor center is open daily and public tours are being offered. Currently the visitor center is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tours are given daily into the John W. Keys, III Pump-Generating Plant at 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Visitors can ride a shuttle bus to the pumping plant where they can view the gigantic pumps that lift water from Lake Roosevelt to be delivered throughout the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project.

Visitors can then ride the shuttle bus across the top of Grand Coulee Dam for spectacular views of Lake Roosevelt and the Columbia River as it winds throu...