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Portland and Vancouver area recreational boating links of interest
NOAA
National Weather Service
  
Regional Forecast
Lower Columbia & Willamette River Water Levels
Columbia River Bar Data  
Tides at Astoria

State Agencies

 Oregon State Marine Board

Oregon Boaters Handbook 

Washington State parks and Recreation 
 
Army Corps of Engineers Dams and Locks
The Portland District of the Army Corps of Engineers maintains a recreation information site with information on using the locks, lock schedules, and other useful information. Please be aware that Corps of Engineers has implemented a recreational lockage schedule on the Columbia-Snake Inland Waterway system. Recreational vessels may only use the locks at the times designated by this schedule.

Cascade Locks, Bonneville Dam   Bonneville Dam is operating on the winter schedule, recreational vessel lockage during daylight hours only.

Oregon City, Willamette Falls locks
The locks are closed for the season

Willamette Falls Heritage Coalition  The Willamette Falls Heritage Foundation was established to raise funds for historic preservation, education, and other heritage-related programs and projects in an area reaching from the mouth of the Clackamas River to the mouth of the Tualatin River.

Navigation

Commercial Traffic Information - The Columbia Bar pilots maintain a website with information on commercial traffic arrivals, sailings and moves.  
 

Safety

NICB  Search the NICB database for vehicles and watercraft affected by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

 
Just for Fun
Grog's Boating Knots   

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