Caribou River (Minnesota)

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

Caribou River
Looking upstream from the Superior Hiking Trail
Country	United States
Basin
Main source	Lake County, Minnesota 47°35′18″N 91°01′28″W / 47.5882362°N 91.0243162°W / 47.5882362; -91.0243162

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.

References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-04-05 at WebCite, accessed May 7, 2012
↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Caribou River

North Shore streams of Minnesota

Saint Louis River Lester River Sucker River Knife River Encampment River Gooseberry River Split Rock River Beaver River Baptism River Manitou River Caribou River Temperance River Cross River Poplar River Cascade River Devil Track River Brule River Pigeon River

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Caribou River (Minnesota)

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