Factory tours, hatcheries, and open studios in Oregon
Factory tours, hatcheries, and open studios in Oregon, each compiled from its own sources: tour times, fees, and what you can watch. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- 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.
Factory Tours in all eleven states; next door in Washington and California.