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The McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System begins at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa on the Verdigris River, enters the Arkansas River near Muskogee, and runs via an extensive lock and dam system to the Mississippi River. Through Oklahoma and Arkansas, dams which artificially deepen and widen the river to sustain commercial barge traffic ...
A map of the McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. The McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS) is part of the United States inland waterway system originating at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa and running southeast through Oklahoma and Arkansas to the Mississippi River. The total length of the system is 445 miles (716 ...
Mountain Fork, also known as the Mountain Fork of the Little River, is a 98-mile-long (158 km) [1] tributary of the Little River in western Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma in the United States. Via the Little and Red rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. The stream rises in the Ouachita Mountains.
River cubic feet per second flow Location of monitoring station Arkansas River: 39,260: Near Arkansas state line Red River: 12,910: Near Arkansas state line Neosho (Grand) River: 8,890: Near Chouteau: Canadian River: 6,523: Near Whitefield Verdigris River: 5,744: Below junction with Bird Creek Little River (Red River tributary) 3,275: Near ...
larger downstream in Oklahoma Kings River: 582 16.5: near Berryville: ... upper course, larger downstream ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Arkansas (1974)
The river enters the Oklahoma Panhandle near Kenton, Oklahoma, crosses the corner of southeastern Colorado into Kansas, reenters the Oklahoma Panhandle, reenters Kansas, and finally returns to Oklahoma where it joins the Arkansas River at Keystone Reservoir west of Tulsa, Oklahoma, its only impoundment.
The river is a major source of tourism in the area. In 1999, it was estimated to have brought in approximately 500,000 tourists and $9 million to the Oklahoma section of the river. The upper section and its tributaries, Flint Creek and the Baron Fork, became a designated Scenic River under the Oklahoma Scenic Rivers Act in 1977.
Arkansas & Missouri tourist railroad 35°25′58″N 94°21′53″W / 35.432806°N 94.364721°W / 35.432806; -94.364721 ( Arkansas & Missouri tourist railroad Arkansas RiverBridge Arkansas - Oklahoma