Snake River

The Snake River is a major river of the greater Pacific Northwest in the United States. At 1,078 miles (1,735 km) long, it is the largest tributary of the Columbia River, the largest North American river that empties into the Pacific Ocean. Rising in western Wyoming, the river flows through the Snake River Plain of southern Idaho then through the rugged Hells Canyon area via northeastern Oregon and the rolling Palouse Hills to reach its mouth near the Washington Tri-Cities area, where it continues as part of the Columbia. Its drainage basin encompasses parts of six U.S. states, and its average discharge is over 54,000 cubic feet per second (1,500 m3/s).

Rugged mountains divided by rolling plains characterize the physiographically diverse watershed of the Snake River. The Snake River Plain was created by a volcanic hotspot which now lies underneath Yellowstone National Park, the headwaters of the Snake River. Gigantic glacial-retreat flooding episodes that occurred during the previous Ice Age carved out many topographical features including various canyons and ridges along the middle and lower Snake. Two of these catastrophic flooding events significantly affected the river and its surrounds.

Snake River (Massachusetts)

The Snake River is a small river in Bristol County, Massachusetts. It flows 4.0 miles (6.4 km) from Winnecunnet Pond to Lake Sabbatia in the northern part of Taunton, Massachusetts.

It is part of the Mill River-Taunton River-Narragansett Bay watersheds. The Snake River is part of the Canoe River Aquifer Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Massachusetts) (ACEC).

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Snake River (Yukon)

The Snake River is located in the Yukon Territory near the Northwest Territories border. It is the farthest east river in the Peel watershed, a major tributary of the Mackenzie River.

The Snake is 300 km (186 mi) in length. The headwaters of the river are located in the Werneke Mountains.

First Nations

The Snake River flows through traditional territories of the Tetlit Gwitchin and the Na-cho Ny’a’k Dun First Nations.

See also

  • List of rivers of Yukon
  • Peel Watershed
  • Coordinates: 65°58′51.4″N 134°11′46.5″W / 65.980944°N 134.196250°W / 65.980944; -134.196250

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    The Lewiston Tribune 23 Mar 2025
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    Moscow-Pullman Daily News 23 Mar 2025
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    The Maritime Executive 22 Mar 2025
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    The Spokesman-Review 21 Mar 2025
    In his senior year of high school, Berman organized a 21-day expedition by snowmobile, touring skis, kayak and raft to travel 425 miles along the Salmon and Snake rivers during spring runoff, when the rivers threw Class V whitewater rapids at him.
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    Idaho launches Teton watershed advisory group

    Capital Press 20 Mar 2025
    Protection and restoration of the Teton River — including all tributaries upstream to the headwaters and downstream to Henry’s Fork of the Snake River — is an overall priority for the advisory group.
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    The Spokesman-Review 20 Mar 2025
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    Vehicle found in Snake River had been there since 2012

    The Argus Observer 19 Mar 2025
    PAYETTE -- A vehicle discovered by a Payette recreationist today was one that went into the Snake River in September of 2012, according to an email from Payette County Sheriff Andy Creech ....
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    ‘Eugh, Dublin! Always in a rush,’ says the woman serving me coffee from a horsebox in Cahersiveen

    The Irish Times 19 Mar 2025
    Surely I’d be more contented here, in Kerry ... He must be in a constant state of euphoria from years of sun beams painting for him on the water – a splitting heart, a spray of baubles, a river of light snaking towards the toe of the slope he lives on ... .
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    Fort Madison Daily Democrat 19 Mar 2025
    I also showed him Snake Alley in Burlington and the Mississippi River bridge, and took him to eat tenderloins (something else he had never had) at Butch’s River Rock Cafe at Oakland Mills.
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    The Ghats of Delhi: Sacred, yet struggling to survive

    Hindustan Times 19 Mar 2025
    Historically, socially and culturally, riverbanks have been the beating heart of cities built along rivers in the Indian subcontinent ... But by the time the river reaches these ghats, it is little more than a poisoned vein snaking through the city.
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    Routt County Commissioners oppose oil and gas lease sale in letter to Bureau of Land Management

    Steamboat Pilot 19 Mar 2025
    ... Mountains into lower elevation winter ranges in Moffat County and the Little Snake River Valley in Wyoming, which puts them in direct conflict with a number of these proposed parcel locations.”.
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