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Lake Roosevelt launch permits available online


Bob Ploof nets a chunky walleye for fishing partner John Carruth so the fish can be unhooked and released back into Lake Roosevelt.
 (Rich Landers / The Spokesman-Review)
Bob Ploof nets a chunky walleye for fishing partner John Carruth so the fish can be unhooked and released back into Lake Roosevelt. (Rich Landers / The Spokesman-Review)

UPDATED with 2015 fees.

WATERSPORTS – Annual permits for launching any vessel at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation area can be purchased online in a new page on pay.gov.

Details and a link are on the Lake Roosevelt website.

Permits cost $6 for a week, $20 for the rest of 2014.

Starting Dec. 1, permits for 2015 available for $30.  Boaters and anglers would be wise to buy 2015 permits early to beat a possible boat launch fee increase the Park Services has proposed.  It could kick into effect as early as January.

For Golden Age, Golden Access and Interagency Senior or Access Pass cardholders, fees are discounted 50 percent. When purchasing a seasonal boat launch permit, the 50% discount will be given once in a calendar year for one permit only.  If multiple permits are purchased at one time, only one will be discounted.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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