Muskoka River

The Muskoka River is a river in the Muskoka District of Ontario, Canada. The river is the third largest river draining the southern Ontario land mass by average annual flow.^[1]

Muskoka River
High Falls in Bracebridge on the north branch of the Muskoka River
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Physical characteristics
Source	Algonquin Provincial Park
• location	Burnt Island Lake
• elevation	525 m (1,722 ft)
Mouth
• location	Two outlets into Georgian Bay via Go Home Lake and Moon River.
• elevation	177 m (581 ft)

It rises in the highlands of Algonquin Park and flows southwest through a number of lakes including

• Lake Muskoka
• Lake Joseph
• Lake Rosseau
• Lake of Bays

which empty into Georgian Bay south of Parry Sound by way of the Moon and Musquash Rivers.

Tributaries include the:

• Indian River
• Hollow River
• Oxtongue River
• Buck River
• East River

Communities on the river include:

• Bracebridge, Ontario
• Huntsville, Ontario

The name "Muskoka" comes from the name of a chief of the Ojibwa in this region, "Mesqua Ukee" (Miskwaa-aki: Red Earth).

In fiction

There is also a Muskoka River in Nancy Drew's fictional home town of River Heights, located somewhere in the Midwestern United States.^[2]

See also

• List of Ontario rivers