Caribou_River_(Minnesota)

Caribou River (Minnesota)

Caribou River (Minnesota)

River in Minnesota, United States

For other places with the same name, see Caribou River.

The Caribou River is a 15.0-mile-long (24.1 km)[1] river in northern Minnesota, the United States. It rises in a swamp about .6 miles (1 km) south of Morris Lake and two miles (3.2 km) east of Echo Lake, near the Lake/Cook County line, at an altitude about 1620 feet (494 m) above sea level. It descends some 1,020 (311 m.) feet in elevation as it flows south to its mouth at Lake Superior, also near the eastern border of Lake County.[2]

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Habitat

The Caribou River is a designated trout stream with populations of brook and rainbow trout.[3]

See also


References

  1. [1]
    U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 7, 2012
  2. [2]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Caribou River
  3. [3]
    "Trout angling: Northeastern MN". Minnesota DNR. Retrieved March 25, 2021.


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