HH dam will upgrade visitor center

Visitor facilities at Hungry Horse Dam will receive accessibility improvements starting in April. The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1.2 million construction contract Aug. 27 to Advanced Solutions Group, LLC, a small business based in Kaysville, Utah.

The 564-foot-tall dam was originally completed in 1953 and received approximately 19,000 visitors last year.

The work includes replacing the visitor center overlook, adding a walkway from the overlook to the visitor center, improving the parking lot, adding two viewing windows in the parapet wall of the dam and constructing a multi-purpose pad for viewing the Hungry Horse Reservoir. The work is expected to be complete by next August.

The construction company is a general contractor specializing in construction, repair and alteration of buildings. The company has completed work for other federal agencies including the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Park Service.