Elk River (Colorado)

Stream in Routt County, Colorado, United States

Elk River[1]

A view of a fisherman in the river along Seedhouse Road, near Clark.

Physical characteristics
Source|
• location| Confluence of North Fork and Middle Fork
• coordinates| 40°46′11″N 106°46′29″W﻿ / ﻿40.76972°N 106.77472°W﻿ / 40.76972; -106.77472
Mouth|

• location

| Confluence with Yampa River

• coordinates

| 40°29′01″N 106°58′07″W﻿ / ﻿40.48361°N 106.96861°W﻿ / 40.48361; -106.96861

• elevation

| 6,539 ft (1,993 m)
Basin features
Progression| Yampa—Green—Colorado

Elk River is a 34.2-mile-long (55.0 km)[2] stream in Routt County, Colorado, United States. It flows from a confluence of the North Fork Elk River and Middle Fork Elk River in Routt National Forest north of Steamboat Springs to a confluence with the Yampa River.

## See also

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* Rivers portal
* Colorado portal

* List of rivers of Colorado
* List of tributaries of the Colorado River

## References

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1. ^ "Elk River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-01-27.
2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 18, 2011

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