Connecticut River

About Connecticut River

The Connecticut River, New England’s longest, stretches for 410 miles from its source to the sea. Its vast basin links a spruce-fir ridge bordering Quebec with estuary tides pushing across Long Island Sound from the Atlantic Ocean. Water is the bedrock of this river system: surface water, groundwater, swamps, bogs, currents, lakes and tides.

Although the Connecticut has many beautiful, natural stretches, photos here also show its less attractive aspects. The river has improved tremendously since it was dubbed "the best landscaped sewer in America" in the 1950s, but the present reality is still far from pristine.

Images in this group show the diverse nature and culture from the main river, and its many tributaries, streams and wetlands. We invite you to share photos of people and wildlife living, working and playing throughout the watershed.



The vast majority of the water in the Connecticut River comes from Vermont and Vermont tributaries. Listed from south to north by location of mouth:

Black Hall River (CT)
Falls River (CT)
Eightmile River (CT)
Deep River (CT)
Salmon River (CT)
Mattabesset River (CT)
Hockanum River (CT)
Park River (CT)
Farmington River (CT)
Scantic River (CT)
Westfield River (MA)
Mill River (Springfield, MA)
Chicopee River (MA)
Manhan River (MA)
Mill River (Northampton, MA)
Fort River (Hadley, MA)
Mill River (Hatfield, MA)
Mill River (Amherst, MA)
Sawmill River (MA)
Deerfield River (MA)
Fall River (MA)
Millers River (MA)
Ashuelot River (NH)
West River (VT)
Partridge Brook (NH)
Cold River (NH)
Saxtons River (VT)
Williams River (VT)
Little Sugar River (NH)
Sugar River (NH)
Blow-me-down Brook (NH)
Ottauquechee River (VT)
Mascoma River (NH)
White River (VT)
Mink Brook (NH)
Ompompanoosuc River (VT)
Waits River (VT)
Oliverian Brook (NH)
Wells River (VT)
Ammonoosuc River (NH)
Stevens River (VT)
Passumpsic River (VT)
Johns River (NH)
Israel River (NH)
Upper Ammonoosuc River (NH)
Paul Stream (VT)
Nulhegan River (VT)
Simms Stream (NH)
Mohawk River (NH)
Halls Stream (VT)
Indian Stream (NH)
Perry Stream (NH)

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