Mountains to Sound Greenway - I-90
Issaquah Salmon Hatchery, WA

At the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery, you can learn more about the fascinating salmon that swim through Issaquah Creek on their way to spawn. While here, watch them fight the currents and lay their eggs each year; a favorite educational experience for kids.

To keep the salmon population alive and growing, hatchery personnel retrieve the eggs from the females on spawning days and fertilize them with milt from the males. The juvenille salmon are released and make their way up the Issaquah Creek to Lake Sammamish, the Sammamish River, Lake Washington, Lake Union, the Lake Washington Ship Canal, Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and finally the Pacific Ocean.

Thousands of tours are given at the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery each year to teach young people about salmon, answer their questions, and teach visitors how to respect the natural workd around them. Take a trip to the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery and discover amazing facts about this fascinating species.