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The Missisquoi River is a tributary of Lake Champlain, approximately 80 mi (130 km) long, in northern Vermont in the United States and southern Quebec in Canada. It drains a rural area of the northern Green Mountains along the US-Canada border northwest of Lake Champlain, passing through no major population centers. The river is mostly within Vermont, skirting into Quebec for approximately 15 miles (24 km) in its upper course.
name of the river is derived from an Algonquin Abenaki word meaning "lots of waterfowl".
ises in western Orleans County, Vermont southwest of Lowell near Belvidere Mountain, then flows north past Troy and North Troy before briefly entering Quebec, where it loops to the southwest to reenter Vermont in northeastern Franklin County.
It flows west through northern Franklin County approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of the Canadian border, past the small communities of Richford, East Berkshire, Enosburg Falls, and Sheldon Springs.
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The Missisquoi River is a tributary of Lake Champlain, approximately 80 mi (130 km) long, in northern Vermont in the United States and southern Quebec in Canada. It drains a rural area of the northern Green Mountains along the US-Canada border northwest of Lake Champlain, passing through no major population centers. The river is mostly within Vermont, skirting into Quebec for approximately 15 miles (24 km) in its upper course.
Etymology
The name of the river is derived from an Algonquin Abenaki word meaning "lots of waterfowl".
Course
It rises in western Orleans County, Vermont southwest of Lowell near Belvidere Mountain, then flows north past Troy and North Troy before briefly entering Quebec, where it loops to the southwest to reenter Vermont in northeastern Franklin County.
It flows west through northern Franklin County approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of the Canadian border, past the small communities of Richford, East Berkshire, Enosburg Falls, and Sheldon Springs. On the west side of Interstate 89 in northwestern Franklin County, it turns to the north, passing through Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge in its lower 5 miles (8 km) before entering the south end of Missisquoi Bay, an arm of Lake Champlain that straddles the Canadian-Vermont border.
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