It's back.
The nightly "One River, Many Voices" laser light show has returned on the spillway of the Grand Coulee Dam after the COVID pandemic took it away.
It came back to the gigantic Eastern Washington structure May 28 of this year and is still running through Sept. 30 starting at 8:30 p.m.
Right before each show more Columbia River water is allowed over, providing a white screen for a backdrop.
Only a comparative trickle flows during the day.
No admission is charged for onlookers for a feature that covers the building of the dam and its benefits as well as what it has done to the environment and the Native American side of the story.
The dam itself is so huge that it boasts 12 million cubic yards of concrete and stands at 550 feet high.
It has enough concrete to form a sidewalk four feet wide and four inches deep all the way around the equator twice -- or 50,000 miles long.
It took from 1933 to 1942 to build it, and it irrigates 600,000 acres.
For more information, contact the Grand Coulee Visitor Center at (509) 633-9265.
How to get there:
The Grand Coulee Visitor Center is located at WA-155, Coulee Dam, WA 99116.
Take Highway 17 north from I-90 and Moses Lake, turning right onto Highway 2 and taking a left off of it at Highway 155. Head north along Banks Lake in the scenic Grand Coulee until you come to the dam after a narrow strip of land.
Text and photo by Tim Clinton.
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