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The North Fork American River also flows into the lake, and the combined rivers form the American River proper, which flows from the dam southwest to a confluence with the Sacramento River. [8] The South Fork drains an area of 840 sq mi (2,200 km 2), [4] or about a third of the 2,150 sq mi (5,600 km 2) American River watershed. Major ...
The Sheltowee Trace Trail is a 343-mile (552.00 km) [1] National Recreation Trail that was created in 1979 and stretches from the Burnt Mill Bridge Trail Head in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in Tennessee) to northern Rowan County, Kentucky
The South Fork also features the historic town of Coloma, where the California Gold Rush began in 1848. Trout fishing and recreational gold panning are popular activities on the South Fork. The Silver Fork American River is a 20-mile-long (32 km) [6] tributary of the South Fork American River, that has its origin at Silver Lake [20]
The Knobstone Trail (KT) is Indiana's longest footpath – a 60-mile backcountry-hiking trail passing through Clark State Forest, Elk Creek Public Fishing Area, and Jackson-Washington State Forest. These state resource properties contain more than 42,000 acres of rugged, forested land in Clark, Scott and Washington counties in southern Indiana.
Below the dam, South Fork Silver Creek winds its way west for 4.5 miles before turning northward for another 7.5 miles where it empties into Junction Reservoir. Big Silver Creek begins near Pearl Lake just to the southeast of Two Peaks East in the Desolation Wilderness and flows for six miles due west into Union Valley Reservoir.
The four-lane bridge spans the North Fork of the American River in Placer County between the city of Auburn and the town of Foresthill in the Sierra Nevada foothills. [2] Pedestrians can walk the length of the bridge in both directions. There was anti-Auburn Dam graffiti, showing protest of the planned dam, on the bridge's underside.
The Middle Fork American River watershed encompasses 616 square miles (1,600 km 2), which represents about 33 percent of the total American River drainage basin above Folsom Lake. [2] The Rubicon River is the largest tributary watershed, at 315.4 sq mi (817 km 2 ), which is nearly three times the size of the Middle Fork's own drainage area ...
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