Skamania Lodge.

Had dinner at Skamania Lodge on Saturday.  The food was mostly salty, but uneven in cooking; my chicken was exceedingly overdone to the point that it crumbled under a knife, and my friend's fish was just slightly underdone that the center was still partially uncooked while consumed.  The bread pudding (meant to serve as stuffing) was overcooked with slight burns and dryness at the edges.

We wandered a bit after dinner, stopping in the main portico / lounge area, and I tried the coffee in the hot pots -- old.  If it had not been old coffee, it would have been otherwise good coffee, though.

They have this interesting learning experience where they bring out hawks and a bald eagle for people to take pictures of, experience having them fly over your head, while staff give a talk about these animals.  I had mixed feelings about this, because it's never easy to watch what would normally be a wild animal, shown off as a well-trained to sit on its stoop until called into action.  The beauty of someplace like Yellowstone, is that the wild animals will go about their business, and you get to see them in action -- I fear that people would misunderstand the difference and not bother to go out and see wildlife in the wild.

It was a mostly-clear afternoon, and then on the drive back, it clouded up completely.

If you're going to Skamania Lodge, it's much faster to drive on I-84 then drive over Bridge of the Gods into Washington.  However the drive on the Washington side is much vastly more scenic, because you will have views of the Oregon side of the Columbia Gorge, including all of the waterfalls and steep cliffs.