At the mouth of the Columbia River in Ilwaco on the Long Beach Peninsula, the Salt Hotel and Pub delivers craft cocktails, fresh Pacific Coast seafood, and the warm, thoughtfully designed atmosphere of a boutique hotel bar in one of the Pacific Northwest’s most historically significant maritime communities. The Columbia Bar (the most dangerous river bar in North America where the Columbia meets the Pacific) is visible from the Ilwaco waterfront; the Salt’s cold cocktails make the drama of the crossing feel appropriately earned.