Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area in eastern Washington centers on the 130-mile Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, a reservoir created by Grand Coulee Dam in 1941 as part of the Columbia River Basin project. Established in 1946 through an agreement involving the Spokane Tribe, the Colville Indian Reservation, and the United States Bureau of Reclamation, it was renamed in 1996 for President Franklin D. Roosevelt despite objections from the Colville Tribe. Spread across many lake access points, it is a major inland destination for boating, fishing, swimming, hunting, and camping. It also includes Fort Spokane and St. Paul’s Mission, linking the reservoir to military, missionary, and Indigenous histories of the upper Columbia.