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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Ahnapee River

The Ahnapee River is a 14.7-mile-long (23.7 km) river on the Door Peninsula in eastern Wisconsin in the United States. It rises in Door County, Wisconsin, and flows through Kewaunee County into Lake Michigan at the city of Algoma. Its name has been ascribed as coming from the Ojibwe word aanapii meaning "when?".

Course

The Ahnapee rises in southern Door County and flows generally southeastwardly into northeastern Kewaunee County, past the village of Forestville, where it is dammed. Downstream of Forestville the river becomes a freshwater estuary of Lake Michigan and is paralleled by a rail trail called the Ahnapee State Trail. It joins Lake Michigan at the city of Algoma. The length of the river from Forestville to Algoma has ten public access points.

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed December 19, 2011
  2. ^ "Ahnapee River". Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Archived from the original on 2009-09-27. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
  3. ^ Interactive trail map showing the Ahnapee river ending in Algoma (the Ice Age Trail joins the Ahnapee trail for several parts)
  4. ^ Ahnapee River Water Trail Plan by the Bay-Lake Regional Planning Commission, June 2019, page 4 (electronic page 8)