The Red River: Sockeye Salmon at Adams River

About four and a half hours east of Vancouver, the Adams River winds through Tsútswecw Provincial Park in British Columbia, home to one of the largest sockeye salmon runs in North America. Every four years the dominant cycle brings the great return, when sockeye surge upstream in numbers that turn the river itself red. The fish arrive transformed, ocean silver traded for spawning dress of brilliant crimson with olive green heads, among the most vivid colors worn by any Pacific salmon. Peak color runs from early October into early November.