Factory tours, hatcheries, and open studios in the West
Factory tours, hatcheries, and open studios across the West, each compiled from its own sources: tour times, fees, and what you can watch.
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Arizona
- Open Studio TourTubac · Free self-guided open studio tourA free, self-guided tour of working studios in Arizona's Santa Cruz Valley, run each spring by Tubac Center of the Arts, where more than 100 artists open homes and workshops.
- Page Springs Fish HatcheryCornville · State-run fish hatcheryA state trout hatchery on Lower Oak Creek near Cornville, Arizona, where springs at a constant 68 degrees grow out fingerling trout on James Page's old ranch.
- Silver Creek Fish HatcheryShow Low · Fish hatcheryA state trout hatchery on spring-fed Silver Creek northeast of Show Low, Arizona, where every Apache trout stocked in the state is raised.
- Sonoran Glass SchoolTucson · Nonprofit educational organizationA nonprofit glass school in a former tire station at the dead end of West 18th Street in Tucson, where a 400-pound furnace runs as hot as 2,300 degrees.
- The Gold King Mine Ghost TownJerome · Ghost townA mining-camp ghost town a mile north of Jerome, Arizona, where Don Robertson's hundred-odd vehicles weather beside an 1890 mine shaft and a 1914 sawmill still cuts lumber.
- Tonto Creek Fish HatcheryPayson · Fish hatcheryA state trout hatchery near the headwaters of Tonto Creek beneath the Mogollon Rim, where visitors feed trout at a show pond and all of Arizona's Apache trout are hatched.
California
- American River HatcheryGold River · Fish hatcheryA state fish hatchery on the American River below Nimbus Dam in Gold River, California, rearing trout and kokanee on Lake Natoma water that arrives by gravity.
- Bale Grist Mill State Historic ParkSaint Helena · State historic parkAn 1846 water-powered grist mill three miles north of St. Helena, California, where weekend millers still grind corn and wheat beside a wooden wheel 36 feet across.
- barrio glassworksCarlsbad · Public glassblowing studio and retail galleryA family-run public glassblowing studio, gallery and shop on Roosevelt Street in Carlsbad's Barrio, where anyone may walk in to watch the hot shop or shape a paperweight.
- Black Rock Trout HatcheryIndependence · Trout hatcheryA state trout hatchery east of US 395 near Independence, California, that grew from rearing ponds below a 1941 Los Angeles diversion dam at Black Rock Springs.
- Bodie State Historic ParkBridgeport · Historic ghost town and once thriving mining camp preserved in a state of "arrested decay"A genuine California gold-mining ghost town; visitors walk the deserted streets of a town that once had around 2,000 structures and roughly 8,000 people.
- Coleman National Fish HatcheryAnderson · Fish hatchery and parkWorking federal hatchery releasing approximately 12,000,000 fall Chinook Salmon, 1,000,000 late-fall Chinook Salmon, and 600,000 steelhead trout each year.
- Columbia State Historic ParkColumbia · State historic parkColumbia State Historic Park, three miles north of Sonora, California, keeps a gold-rush town in daily use, where the City Hotel's cherrywood bar came around the Horn in 1856.
- Coyote Valley Fish FacilityUkiah · Egg taking station and an imprinting facilityCoyote Valley Fish Facility operates as an egg taking station and an imprinting facility. The sorting of adult return steelhead occurs daily at 10:00 a.m. near the fish ladder January - mid-April.
- Crystal Lake HatcheryCassel · Fish hatcheryA state trout hatchery on Baum Lake at Cassel in eastern Shasta County, built in 1947 on Frank Baum's old ranch with the first Wildlife Conservation Board money.
- Darrah Springs Trout HatcheryManton · Trout hatcheryA state trout hatchery off Wildcat Road near Manton, California, whose spring water grows trout fast but runs too warm for their eggs.
- Empire Mine State Historic ParkGrass Valley · State historic parkA state historic park in Grass Valley, California, keeps the surface works of a gold mine worked from 1850 to 1956, whose 367 miles of flooded tunnels survive in a once-secret scale model.
- Feather River Fish HatcheryOroville · Fish hatcheryA state salmon and steelhead hatchery on the Feather River below Oroville Dam, where Chinook climb a fish ladder past an underwater window from mid-September on.
- Fillmore Trout HatcheryFillmore · Trout hatcheryA state trout hatchery on a former citrus grove beside the Santa Clara River near Fillmore, California, where visitors walk four 1,000-foot raceways under a net strung against herons.
- Fish Springs Trout HatcheryBig Pine · Trout hatcheryA state trout hatchery three miles south of Big Pine in the Owens Valley, built in 1952 on spring water that stopped flowing once wells were switched on.
- Folsom Powerhouse State Historic ParkFolsom · State historic parkA state historic park in Folsom, California, keeps the 1895 brick powerhouse whose General Electric generators, still in place, sent 11,000 volts 22 miles to Sacramento.
- Gold Bug Park / MinePlacerville · Historic mine and parkA city-owned hard rock gold mine on Big Canyon Creek in Placerville, California, where visitors walk a lit 352-foot drift dug mostly in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Harley FarmsPescadero · Small-scale farmstead goat dairyA farmstead goat dairy in a derelict 1910 cow dairy at Pescadero, California, now the only working dairy left in San Mateo County.
- Jelly Belly FactoryFairfield · Factory tourThe Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield, California, where an elevated quarter-mile tour lane runs above a candy plant the company says makes 1,680 jelly beans a second.
- MazAmar Art PotteryPioneertown · Open production, ceramics studioAn open production pottery studio on Pioneertown's Mane Street, where a crew throws and fires the Joshua tree mugs in the rooms behind the shop.
- Merced River HatcherySnelling · Chinook salmon facilityA state Chinook salmon hatchery at the foot of Crocker-Huffman Dam near Snelling, California, reached by a gravel canal road and begun in 1970 as a spawning channel.
- Michael Anthony, BootmakerSebastopol · One-man custom boot shopA one-man custom boot shop on North Main Street in Sebastopol, California, where Michael Anthony Carnacchi does all 372 steps himself and once measured Abraham Lincoln's boots.
- Moccasin Creek HatcheryMoccasin · Trout hatcheryA state trout hatchery at the Highway 49 and 120 junction in Moccasin, fed by Hetch Hetchy water, that hatches California golden trout for planting by airplane.
- Mojave River HatcheryVictorville · State fish hatcheryA California state trout hatchery on the lower campus of Victor Valley College in Victorville, where desert well water raises rainbow trout and a quarter buys a handful of feed.
- Mokelumne River HatcheryClements · HatcheryA state-operated salmon and steelhead hatchery at the foot of Camanche Dam near Clements, California, where visitors watch fall-run Chinook spawned through a viewing window.
- Mount Shasta Fish HatcheryMount Shasta · Trout hatcheryA state trout hatchery in Mount Shasta, California, raising fish since 1888 where an innkeeper once kept trout for his guests; its 1909 building now holds a town museum.
- Pennyroyal FarmBoonville · WineryRegenerative farm with vineyard and farmstead creamery, featuring wines, goat and sheep milk cheese, and farm fare from the estate kitchen.
- San Joaquin HatcheryFriant · Fish hatcheryA major producer of trout and inland salmon, San Joaquin Hatchery is also a great place to visit. Along the San Joaquin River, just downstream of the Friant dam, San Joaquin Hatchery has picnic grounds among the garden of California native vegetation. Take a photo with the enormous wood-carved rainbow trout!
- Shasta Dam and Powerplant TourShasta Lake · Guided dam tourA free Bureau of Reclamation tour of Shasta Dam near Redding, California, that walks the crest, rides an elevator 400 feet down, and looks out at the spillway from inside.
- Silverado Fisheries BaseNapa · HatcheryKnown as "the hatchery tucked between the grapes," Silverado Fisheries Base is located within the world famous wine producing Napa Valley, and is the main fish distribution facility for the San Francisco and Bay Area region.
- Trinity River HatcheryLewiston · HatcheryA state-run salmon and steelhead hatchery at the foot of Lewiston Dam on the Trinity River, where an underwater window shows migrating fish and the ladder opens after Labor Day.
- Warm Springs Fish HatcheryGeyserville · Fish hatcheryA Corps-built salmon and steelhead hatchery below Warm Springs Dam in Sonoma County, made to replace spawning grounds the dam cut off, where fish climb a seven-step ladder.
Colorado
- Chalk Cliffs Trout Rearing UnitNathrop · Cold water fish hatchery (trout rearing unit)A Colorado Parks and Wildlife trout rearing unit near Nathrop, below the Chalk Cliffs of Mount Princeton, where a quarter buys feed for trout bound for Front Range lakes.
- Crestone Artists Open Studio TourCrestone · Annual open studio tourA free October weekend in Crestone, Colorado, when members of an artist-run group open their working studios across town, continuing a tour Deana Wilfong began in 2005.
- Dave Sipe's Folk ArtMancos · Open studioA chainsaw carver's open studio, sculpture garden and museum on U.S. 160 outside Mancos, Colorado, where hundreds of grinning wooden figures spill from house, sheds and trailers.
- Durango Open Studio TourDurango · Free self-guided working studio tourA free, self-guided fall weekend of open artist studios across Durango, Colorado, where yellow yard signs mark the doors and ten 2026 stops share the historic Smiley Building.
- Georgetown Energy MuseumGeorgetown · Energy museum in a hydroelectric generating plantA free museum inside the hydroelectric plant at the east end of Sixth Street in Georgetown, Colorado, where water off South Clear Creek has turned generators since 1900.
- Hotchkiss National Fish HatcheryHotchkiss · National fish hatcheryA federal trout hatchery on the North Fork of the Gunnison near Hotchkiss, Colorado, fed by a 56-degree spring that an earthquake near Salt Lake City created in the 1930s.
- Leadville National Fish HatcheryLeadville · National fish hatcheryFederal trout hatchery founded 1889 at 10,000 feet below Mount Massive near Leadville, Colorado, housed in an 1890 red sandstone building and now breeding Colorado's greenback cutthroat.
- MouCo Cheese CompanyFort Collins · CheeseryA family cheesery in northeast Fort Collins, Colorado, making Camembert and other soft-ripened rounds since 2001 on a Bavarian model, with weekday morning tours by appointment.
- Mt. Shavano HatcherySalida · State fish hatcheryA state trout hatchery on spring water north of Salida, Colorado, occupying the old Frantzhurst farm, which once shipped fresh trout on ice by rail coast to coast.
- Open StudiosBoulder · Free self-guided tour of artists' working studiosUpwards of 8,000 art lovers attend the Studio Tour each year, visiting more than 120 local visual artists to learn about artistic inspiration, mediums, techniques, and to purchase one-of-a-kind works of art.
- Pitkin Fish HatcheryPitkin · Cold water brood and production facilityLocated on Quartz Creek just outside Pitkin; raises rainbow trout and kokanee salmon and keeps a Rio Grande cutthroat broodstock.
- Rifle Falls Fish HatcheryRifle · Cold water hatcheryColorado's largest state-owned trout hatchery, fourteen miles north of Rifle beneath 300-foot limestone cliffs, where rare Uncompahgre cutthroat rescued from a wildfire went into isolation tanks in July 2026.
- Roaring Judy Fish HatcheryAlmont · Fish hatcheryA state fish hatchery on the East River north of Almont, Colorado, where the state's largest kokanee salmon run ends each fall in a Friday giveaway of spawned fish.
- Shenandoah-Dives MillSilverton · Gold millThe Shenandoah-Dives Mill, known locally as the Mayflower Mill, is a 1929 flotation mill near Silverton, Colorado, whose machinery stands as it was when the final whistle sounded in 1991.
- The Fleece Factory Of The RockiesLa Salle · Textile companyAn artisan fiber mill, boutique and alpaca barn on Sandwalker Ranch outside LaSalle, Colorado, where a carder feeds straight into a rug yarn machine.
- Tour of Yamcolo and Stagecoach ReservoirsOak Creek · Dam and hydropower plant tourSummer tours led by the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District go inside Stagecoach Dam near Oak Creek, Colorado, a concrete dam built in 37 days of round-the-clock work.
- Western Museum of Mining & IndustryColorado Springs · Interactive museum of mining and industryWorking machinery, a model mining drift and gold panning stations in the 12,200 square foot exhibit hall, plus historic buildings and machinery on a 27 acre campus.
- Yampa Valley FiberworksCraig · Wool millWe mill natural fibers for customers all over the world. Our small batch processing is done with care and craftsmanship. We're universally referred to as a wool mill, but we specialize in wool, alpaca, llama, mohair, and angora natural fibers.
Idaho
- Crystal Gold MineKellogg · Crystal gold mine: a long, rich legacyCrystal Gold Mine, in Kellogg, Idaho, is an 1880s hard-rock gold tunnel that was blasted shut, lost for a century, and is now toured past walls of colored smithsonite crystals.
- Dworshak National Fish HatcheryOrofino · National fish hatcheryA working fish hatchery at Ahsahka, Idaho, below Dworshak Dam, where visitors watch crews spawn returning steelhead, Chinook, and coho on an indoor deck.
- Hayspur Fish HatcheryBellevue · Fish hatcheryIdaho's first fish hatchery, on Loving Creek south of Bellevue, where rainbow trout spawn year-round under single lightbulbs in fifteen silo-like ponds.
- Sierra Silver Mine TourWallace · Silver mine tourIn 1982 a group of local businesspeople formed the non-profit organization Sierra Silver Mine Tour, Inc. and we began taking folks underground and teaching them how we get silver out of the mountain and into their lives.
Montana
- Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic ArtsHelena · FoundationA ceramic arts residency and public grounds on a former brickyard three miles from downtown Helena, where artists have worked beside the Western Clay beehive kilns since 1951.
- Big Springs Trout HatcheryLewistown · Trout hatcheryMontana's largest coldwater trout hatchery sits at the head of Big Spring, seven miles from Lewistown, where a fifth-grader's creek samples once led investigators to its raceway paint.
- Bluewater Springs Trout HatcheryBridger · State-run hatcheryA state trout hatchery in Carbon County, Montana, eight and a half miles east of Bridger, named for the blue spring that feeds it at 58°F.
- Creston National Fish HatcheryKalispell · Fish hatchery, watchable wildlifeA federal trout hatchery in Montana's Flathead Valley, built by WPA labor in 1939 and 1940 to stock Glacier National Park, later the first to rear endangered bull trout.
- Ennis National Fish HatcheryEnnis · Broodstock hatcheryA federal rainbow trout broodstock hatchery in the Gravelly Range foothills southwest of Ennis, Montana, where adult trout are kept for eggs shipped to hatcheries across the country.
- Fort Peck Dam Powerhouse ToursFort Peck · Powerhouse tourGuided tours inside the Corps of Engineers powerhouses at Fort Peck Dam, Montana, generating plants added to a Depression-era earthen dam that was never designed to make electricity.
- Fort Peck State Fish HatcheryFort Peck · Fish hatcheryA state fish hatchery beside the Dredge Cuts below Fort Peck Dam, raising walleye, pike, salmon, and trout; anglers carried its bill through Montana's House by one vote.
- Giant Springs Trout HatcheryGreat Falls · Day-use state parkA state trout hatchery beside Giant Springs in Great Falls, Montana, rearing fish on spring water that rises at 54 degrees from limestone some 400 feet down.
- Nevada City Museum Living HistoryNevada City · History museumCome live Montana's history!
- Washoe Park Trout HatcheryAnaconda · State-run hatcheryWashoe Park also has the state's oldest fish hatchery located at the east end of the park.
Nevada
- Accardi Book ArtsGardnerville · Book arts studio and binderyA paper- and fabric-marbling studio and bindery in Gardnerville, Nevada, kept by Pietro and Vanessa Accardi, whose craft runs back to his father's 1950s print shop in Turin.
- Coin Press No. 1 DemonstrationsCarson City · Museum eventsEvery Saturday at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City, Coin Press No. 1 strikes silver medallions in the old mint where it struck the first CC dollars in 1870.
- Comstock Gold MillVirginia City · Last fully operational stamp mill in the stateThe last fully operational stamp mill in Nevada, a two-stamp Joshua Hendy mill built in 1864, runs on F Street in Virginia City beside the V&T tracks.
- Hoover Dam Visitor Center and Powerplant ToursBoulder City · Visitor center and toursNarrated exhibits on the history of Hoover Dam with a 360-degree Observation Deck view of the dam, the Colorado River, Lake Mead, and the Hoover Bypass Bridge, plus the Original Exhibit Building's narrated 3D model of the region's dams and power systems.
- Lahontan National Fish HatcheryGardnerville · National fish hatcheryA federal hatchery south of Gardnerville, Nevada, where on Wednesdays from February to May biologists pair Pilot Peak cutthroat trout by genetic match, breeding a lake strain once thought lost.
- Pyramid Lake Fisheries HatcheriesSutcliffe · Fish hatcheryThe Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe's trout and Cui-ui hatcheries at Sutcliffe, Nevada, where each spring mature cutthroat climb a man-made channel toward the scent of yearling fish.
- Spring Creek Rearing StationBaker · Fish rearing stationA Nevada Department of Wildlife trout rearing station on Snake Creek Road below Great Basin National Park, fed by a 57-degree spring the Shoshone hold sacred.
- Tuscarora Pottery SchoolTuscarora · SchoolA summer ceramics school in an 1877 rooming house at Tuscarora, Nevada, an hour north of Elko, where a red geodesic dome stays open to potters all night.
New Mexico
- Abiquiú Studio TourAbiquiú · Self-guided, driving studio tourA self-guided October drive to 26 artist stops around Abiquiú, New Mexico, where the volunteer fire department serves wood-oven pizza at stop 25.
- Dixon Studio TourDixon · Fall traditionA free, self-guided weekend each November in Dixon, New Mexico, when 43 studios, wineries and kitchens across the Embudo Valley open their doors, as they have since 1982.
- El Rancho de Las GolondrinasLa Cienega · Living history museumA 500-acre living history museum in the La Cienega valley south of Santa Fe, built on a Camino Real paraje and shaped by a Finn who knew Scandinavia's outdoor museums.
- El Rito Studio TourEl Rito · Artist studio tourAn open-studio weekend in the Rio Arriba County village of El Rito, begun in 1986, whose mercado fills Alumni Hall on a college campus founded in 1909.
- Española Valley Fiber Arts CenterEspañola · Non-profit art centerA weavers' nonprofit in an adobe storefront in Española, New Mexico, where a visitor with no experience can sit at a loom and finish a rag rug in about four hours.
- Glenwood Fish HatcheryGlenwood · State fish hatcheryA 1938 WPA trout hatchery a mile outside Glenwood, New Mexico, rebuilt to spawn only the Gila trout, an olive-yellow native once close to extinction.
- High Road Art TourChimayó · Open studio tour on the high road to taos scenic bywayA self-guided open-studio tour along the High Road between Santa Fe and Taos, held each September since 1998, where carvers, weavers, painters, and bakers open their own places to visitors.
- Lisboa Springs Fish HatcheryPecos · Fish hatcheryNew Mexico's oldest state fish hatchery, built in 1921 on the Lisboa Springs one mile north of Pecos, whose trout made the first stocking of Lake Katherine in 1932.
- Los Ojos Fish HatcheryLos Ojos · State fish hatcheryA New Mexico state trout hatchery begun in 1932 at Los Ojos, its stone WPA buildings set in strict symmetry beneath 120-foot cliffs.
- Mora National Fish HatcheryMora · National fish hatcheryA federal hatchery at 7,200 feet outside Mora, New Mexico, raises the threatened Gila trout in tanks painted brown to look like a riverbed.
- Paseo PotterySanta Fe · Ceramic studio and galleryA volunteer-run ceramics studio and gallery in Santa Fe's Meow Wolf neighborhood, founded as an artists' co-op in 1991, that gives away the net proceeds of its monthly Throw Downs.
- Pimentel & Sons GuitarmakersAlbuquerque · Family guitar makersA family workshop in Albuquerque's Northeast Heights where Lorenzo Pimentel's sons build guitars by hand, among them the New Mexico Sunrise, the state's official guitar since 2009.
- Red River Fish HatcheryQuesta, NM · Fish hatcheryOpen for fishing and self-guided tours, this state-run fish hatchery is less than 10-minutes from Questa. It is the largest hatchery in New Mexico producing over 1.7 million rainbow trout each year, including catchable 9 – 10-inch fish.
- Rock Lake HatcherySanta Rosa · Fish hatcheryA state fish hatchery two miles south of Santa Rosa, New Mexico, fed without pumps by a 290-foot-deep artesian spring that stays at 60 degrees year-round.
- Seven Springs Fish HatcheryJemez Springs · State fish hatcheryA state trout hatchery in the Jemez Mountains whose ponds WPA crews dug with teams and scrapers, and which has raised only Rio Grande cutthroat trout since 2002.
- Tierra WoolsChama · Workshop and galleryA weaving workshop and shop just south of Chama, New Mexico, where Rio Grande blankets come off hardwood walking looms an Austrian craftsman built for a village enterprise founded in 1983.
Oregon
- Alsea River Fish HatcheryAlsea · State fish hatcheryA state fish hatchery on the North Fork Alsea River in Oregon's Coast Range, built with New Deal relief labor, where winter steelhead climb a ladder into the trap.
- Bandon HatcheryBandon · HatcheryA state fish hatchery on Ferry Creek just east of Bandon, Oregon, where Coquille River Chinook are spawned on Tuesday mornings to rebuild a run near extinction.
- Big Creek HatcheryKnappa · Fish hatcheryWorking Mitchell Act hatchery on Big Creek where fish rearing and pond viewing are available daily, with seasonal viewing of egg incubation, adult salmon, salmon spawning, and steelhead spawning.
- Bonneville HatcheryCascade Locks · Hatchery facilityOregon's largest state fish hatchery, on Tanner Creek below Bonneville Dam near Cascade Locks, where a ten-foot white sturgeon named Herman lives behind underwater glass.
- Bradford Island Visitor Center at Bonneville Lock and DamCascade Locks · Visitor centerThe Army Corps of Engineers' 1975 visitor center on Bradford Island at Bonneville Dam, near Cascade Locks, Oregon, where underwater windows look sideways into the fish ladder.
- Butte Creek MillEagle Point · Water-powered flour millA water-powered grist mill on Little Butte Creek in Eagle Point, Oregon, built in 1872 and burned on Christmas morning 2015, again grinding on its original French buhr stones.
- Cascade HatcheryCascade Locks · Fish hatcheryA state coho hatchery on Eagle Creek near Cascade Locks, Oregon, whose roughly 1.65 million young coho were trucked out ahead of debris flows after the 2017 Eagle Creek Fire.
- Cedar Creek HatcheryHebo · Hatchery visitors' centerA state fish hatchery on Three Rivers east of Hebo, Oregon, in production since 1925, where visitors feed trophy rainbow trout in a show pond beside the salmon raceways.
- Clackamas HatcheryEstacada · Working state fish hatchery open to visitorsA state salmon and steelhead hatchery on the Clackamas River in Milo McIver State Park, near Estacada, Oregon, where returning spring Chinook swim of their own accord into the trap.
- Cole M. Rivers HatcheryTrail · Fish hatcheryCole M. Rivers Hatchery, below Lost Creek Dam near Trail, Oregon, where Rogue River salmon and steelhead climb a ladder to the barrier weir that ends their run.
- Danner boot factory toursPortland · In-person factory tourFree, scheduled tours of Danner's working boot factory in Northeast Portland, Oregon, where six visitors at a time watch hides tested, uppers stitched down, and liners dunked for leaks.
- Elk River HatcheryPort Orford · Fish hatcheryA state salmon and steelhead hatchery up the Elk River from Port Orford, Oregon, where returning fall Chinook swim through holes in a fish ladder's steps into an aluminum trap.
- Fall River HatcheryBend · State fish hatcheryA state trout hatchery on spring-fed Fall River south of Bend, Oregon, whose 1973 virus outbreak led the state to chemically treat the entire river.
- Gnat Creek HatcheryClatskanie · Fish hatcheryA state fish hatchery on Gnat Creek off U.S. Highway 30 east of Astoria, where sturgeon circle a show pond and the creek drops nearly 2,000 feet in four miles.
- Hull-Oakes Lumber CoMonroe · Steam-driven sawmillA sawmill at the end of Dawson Road in Benton County, Oregon, that cuts Douglas-fir timbers up to 85 feet long and ran on steam until 2013.
- Irrigon HatcheryIrrigon · Fish hatcheryA state fish hatchery on the Columbia's south shore west of Irrigon, Oregon, where steelhead bound for the Wallowa and Imnaha rivers are reared in 32 concrete raceways.
- Klamath HatcheryChiloquin · Fish hatcheryA state trout hatchery on spring-fed Crooked Creek west of Chiloquin, Oregon, reopened in June 2026 in a concrete hatch house built after the Two Four Two Fire.
- Klaskanine HatcheryAstoria · Salmon and steelhead fish hatcheryA state salmon hatchery on the North Fork Klaskanine River near Olney, Oregon, operating since 1911, where fall Chinook return each autumn below a concrete dam the state plans to remove.
- Latimer Quilt & Textile CenterTillamook · Living, working museumA working textile museum in a former Wilson River schoolhouse in Tillamook, Oregon, where weavers work the looms on Fridays and volunteers turn back quilts one by one.
- Leaburg HatcheryLeaburg · Fish hatcheryAn Army Corps–built fish hatchery on the McKenzie River east of Leaburg, Oregon, where staff emptied 1.16 million fish into the river during the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire.
- Lookingglass HatcheryElgin · Fish hatcheryA spring Chinook hatchery on Lookingglass Creek, eighteen miles from Elgin, Oregon, where eggs from five rivers are reared beside a creek whose native run vanished and was rebuilt.
- Marion Forks HatcheryIdanha · Fish hatcheryA state fish hatchery at milepost 66 on Oregon Highway 22, where visitors feed adult rainbow trout and watch Chinook salmon spawn in Horn Creek.
- North Nehalem HatcheryNehalem · Fish hatcheryA state fish hatchery on Oregon's North Fork Nehalem River, where coho and steelhead return to the trap each fall and winter, an eighth of a mile from Umbrella Falls.
- Oak Springs HatcheryMaupin · Fish hatcheryOregon's trout and steelhead hatchery on the Deschutes River north of Maupin runs on springs from the canyon wall, and in autumn visitors may help spawn the trout.
- Oregon Hatchery Research CenterAlsea · Research centerA state and university salmon research center on Fall Creek near Alsea, Oregon, built over an infamous old hatchery and closed after a 2020 landslide upstream silted its water.
- Oxbow HatcheryCascade Locks · Fish hatcheryA state salmon hatchery on Herman Creek east of Cascade Locks, Oregon, fed by Oxbow Springs, the water Nestlé eyed from 2008 for its Arrowhead brand.
- Pendleton MillPendleton · Woolen millThe original Pendleton Woolen Mills plant in Pendleton, Oregon, weaving jacquard-patterned blankets and wool fabrics since 1909.
- Roaring River HatcheryScio · Fish hatcheryODFW visitor guide: a mixed-stock fish hatchery producing anadromous and resident trout; raceway ponds added in 1987 and 1996; the rainbow trout program involves broodstock maintenance, spawning, egg incubation and rearing.
- Round Butte HatcheryMadras · Fish hatcherySpring Chinook, summer steelhead, and sockeye salmon mitigation hatchery built in 1972 to compensate for the Pelton/Round Butte Hydroelectric Complex; adult collection, egg incubation, and rearing on PGE land at the base of Round Butte Dam.
- Sandy HatcherySandy · State fish hatcherySandy Hatchery, a state fish hatchery on Cedar Creek just north of Sandy, Oregon, where returning coho are trapped, sorted and spawned through the first weeks of November.
- South Santiam HatcherySweet Home · Fish hatcheryA state salmon and steelhead hatchery below Foster Dam outside Sweet Home, Oregon, where returning Chinook gather each fall at the foot of the dam's old fish ladder.
- Sumpter Valley Dredge State Heritage AreaSumpter · State heritage areaIn a pond at the south edge of Sumpter, Oregon, sits the last of three gold dredges that turned Sumpter Valley into miles of rock piles. Visitors may climb aboard.
- The Dalles Lock & Dam Visitor CenterThe Dalles · Visitor centerThe Corps of Engineers' visitor center for The Dalles Dam, on the Oregon shore east of The Dalles, stands on the site of a salmon cannery whose fishwheel sluiceways remain.
- Thompson's Mills State Heritage SiteShedd · State heritage siteThompson's Mills, on the Calapooia River two miles east of Shedd, is Oregon's oldest water-powered grist mill, and a water right older than statehood still turns its machinery for visitors.
- Tillamook CreameryTillamook · Creamery visitor centerThe Tillamook County Creamery Association's free visitor center on Highway 101 in Tillamook, Oregon, where visitors look down from a gallery onto a working cheddar plant.
- Trask River HatcheryTillamook · HatcheryA state salmon hatchery on the Trask River east of Tillamook, Oregon, where fall salmon run below the hatchery and up Gold Creek, home of a family hatchery about 1900.
- Umatilla HatcheryIrrigon · Fish hatcheryAn Oregon fish hatchery on the Columbia west of Irrigon, rearing Chinook and steelhead for the Umatilla River, co-managed with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
- Valley Bronze of OregonJoseph · Bronze foundryA family-owned art foundry in Joseph, Oregon, begun in 1982 in a logging-truck repair shop, that has cast bronze for Main Street and the National Archives.
- Wallowa HatcheryEnterprise · HatcheryA state hatchery on Spring Creek west of Enterprise, Oregon, where summer steelhead end an 800-mile run in a trap and rainbow trout are raised for Wallowa Lake.
- Warm Springs National Fish HatcheryWarm Springs · National fish hatcheryA federal salmon hatchery on the Warm Springs River in central Oregon, run with the Confederated Tribes, whose fish ladder passes wild Chinook, coho, steelhead and lamprey upriver each spring.
- Willamette HatcheryOakridge · Fish hatcheryWillamette Trout Hatchery and the adjacent Oakridge Salmon Hatchery were combined in 1983 and operate today as Willamette Hatchery.
- Wizard Falls HatcheryCamp Sherman · Fish hatcheryWizard Falls Hatchery offers a park-like setting, display pond and interpretive signage. A platform for viewing fish in the settling pond is also available. Group tours are available by advance arrangement.
Utah
- Benson Grist MillStansbury Park · Historic siteAn 1854 water-powered mill in the heart of the Tooele Valley offering agricultural history, architectural beauty, and community spirit.
- Heber Valley Artisan CheeseMidway · Family-owned, farm-to-table creameryA fourth-generation Kohler dairy in Midway, Utah, that began turning its own herd's milk into cheese in 2011 and now ages some wheels for up to ten years.
- Holdman StudiosLehi · Glass studioA stained, painted, and blown art glass studio on the Thanksgiving Point campus in Lehi, Utah, begun in a family garage by an artist with a severe stutter.
- Jones Hole National Fish HatcheryVernal · National fish hatcheryA federal trout hatchery at the dead end of Jones Hole Road, 40 miles northeast of Vernal, Utah, fed by a canyon spring that runs 54 degrees all year.
- This Is The Place Heritage ParkSalt Lake City · Living-history state parkA 450-acre living-history state park at the base of Emigration Canyon in Salt Lake City, built around the 60-foot monument marking where Brigham Young is said to have stopped.
Washington
- Aplets & Cotlets Candy KitchenCashmere · Retail store and tour centerA working candy factory in downtown Cashmere, Washington, where Aplets & Cotlets, apple and apricot locoum with walnuts, have been made since 1920 and the factory tour is free.
- Carson National Fish HatcheryCarson · National fish hatcheryA federal salmon hatchery built by the Civilian Conservation Corps where Tyee Creek meets Washington's Wind River, and where spring Chinook climb a ladder home each May.
- Grand Coulee Dam Visitor CenterCoulee Dam · Visitor centerThe Bureau of Reclamation's free visitor center at the foot of Grand Coulee Dam in Coulee Dam, Washington, is a cylinder Marcel Breuer designed to resemble a generator rotor.
- Grant PUD Visitor CenterBeverly · Visitor centerGrant PUD's free visitor center at Wanapum Dam near Beverly, Washington, where a visitor can run a mock control room beside a dam whose spillway cracked in 2014.
- Hiram M. Chittenden Locks and Lake Washington Ship CanalSeattle · Shipping locks at seaward entry to the lake washington ship canalThe Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in Seattle's Ballard district, where two side-by-side locks of 1917 lift boats between Puget Sound and the lakes while salmon climb a ladder past underwater windows.
- Issaquah Salmon HatcheryIssaquah · Salmon hatcheryA Works Progress Administration salmon hatchery in downtown Issaquah, Washington, where returning Chinook and coho climb a glassed-in fish ladder past underwater viewing windows.
- Leavenworth National Fish HatcheryLeavenworth · Public u.s. fish & wildlife service facility (national fish hatchery)A 1940 national fish hatchery on Icicle Creek near Leavenworth, Washington, whose cool summer water still runs from a valve beneath Snow Lake, opened by hand each year.
- Little White Salmon National Fish HatcheryCook · National fish hatcheryThe oldest hatchery on the Columbia, at Cook, Washington, where an underground room beside the Little White Salmon River shows Chinook held before spawning behind glass.
- Quilcene National Fish HatcheryQuilcene · National fish hatcheryHas a small one-room Visitor Center; the public is welcome to walk around the facility to see the fish ponds (raceways), fish ladder, fish weir, and the Big Quilcene River.
- Rocky Reach Discovery CenterWenatchee · Discovery centerA free hydropower museum at Rocky Reach Dam north of Wenatchee, where widened windows on the fish ladder put visitors eye to eye with salmon.
- Skagit ToursNewhalem · Scenic boat toursGlass-roofed boat tours on Diablo Lake in Washington's North Cascades, descended from the excursions J.D. Ross began in order to sell Seattle on Skagit River power.
- Spring Creek National Fish HatcheryUnderwood · National fish hatcheryA federal salmon hatchery on the Washington shore of the Columbia at Underwood, where tule fall Chinook climb a stepped ladder each September to the spring water that raised them.
- The Blacksmith ShopVancouver · Blacksmith shopThe reconstructed Hudson's Bay Company smithy at Fort Vancouver, Washington, where volunteer smiths forge period iron on the site where archaeologists found an anvil foundation and quenching pit.
- The Hot ShopTacoma · Working artist's studioThe Jane Russell Hot Shop, a working glass studio inside the Museum of Glass's tilted steel cone on Tacoma's Thea Foss Waterway, where glass is blown all day, every open day.
- Wanapum Heritage CenterMattawa · Heritage centerA free museum and cultural center of the Wanapum, the River People, beside Priest Rapids Dam near Mattawa, Washington, entered by a path aligned with the equinox sunrise.
- Willard National Fish HatcheryCook · National fish hatcheryRearing facility only on the Little White Salmon River, producing two million upriver bright fall Chinook annually and up to 1.2 million coho salmon annually in partnership with the Yakama Nation
- Winthrop National Fish HatcheryWinthrop · National fish hatcheryU.S. Fish & Wildlife Service mitigation hatchery on a 42-acre site on the Methow River, just outside the town of Winthrop in north-central Washington.
- WSU Creamery observation room (Ferdinand's)Pullman · University creamery observation roomWashington State University's working dairy; visitors can watch cheesemakers in action making Cougar Cheese and Ferdinand's Ice Cream from the Marc P. Bates Observation Room, which is open to the public during posted weekday business hours.
Wyoming
- Jackson National Fish HatcheryJackson · National fish hatcheryJackson National Fish Hatchery is located in the beautiful valley of Jackson Hole with the majestic Teton mountains nearby. Founded in 1950, the hatchery raises native cutthroat trout for federal, state and Tribal partners.
- Mountain Meadow Wool MillBuffalo · Wool millWool mill at the foot of the Big Horn Mountains in Buffalo, Wyoming, with a self-guided mezzanine tour over a working production floor; visitors see the full process from shorn raw wool to hand-dyed finished yarn and can shop natural products made with the mill yarn.
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