Manistee River

Manistee River
Big Manistee River
The Manistee River in May 2007
Native nameMinistigweyaa (Ojibwe)
Location
CountryUnited States
StateMichigan
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationMancelona Township, Michigan
 • coordinates44°56′06″N 084°52′06″W / 44.93500°N 84.86833°W / 44.93500; -84.86833[1]
 • elevation1,250 ft (380 m)
MouthLake Michigan
 • location
Manistee, Michigan
 • coordinates
44°15′00″N 086°20′40″W / 44.25000°N 86.34444°W / 44.25000; -86.34444[1]
 • elevation
579 ft (176 m)[1]
Length190 mi (310 km)
Basin size1,780 sq mi (4,600 km2)
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • leftLittle Manistee River, Pine River

The Manistee River (/mænɪsti/ man-iss-TEE, seldom referred to as the Big Manistee River) is a 190-mile-long (310 km)[2] river in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The river rises in the Northern Lower Peninsula, and flows in a generally southwesterly direction to its mouth at Lake Michigan at the eponymous city of Manistee.

The Manistee River is considered, like the nearby Au Sable River, to be one of the best trout fisheries east of the Rockies. The Manistee River is also being considered for restoration of Arctic grayling, which have been extirpated from the State of Michigan since 1936.[3]

  1. ^ a b c "Manistee River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed November 21, 2011
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Goble was invoked but never defined (see the help page).