Nowitna River

The Nowitna River is a Template:Convert tributary of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska.<ref name="Place Names"/> The river flows northeast from the Kuskokwim Mountains through Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge and enters the larger river Template:Convert northeast of Ruby<ref name="Place Names"/> and southwest of Tanana.<ref name="DeLorme">Template:Cite book</ref> Major tributaries include the Titna, Big Mud, Little Mud, Lost, and Sulatna rivers.<ref name="DeLorme"/>

In 1980, the Template:Convert of the river within the wildlife refuge were designated "wild" and added to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The designation means that most of the Nowitna is unpolluted, free-flowing, and generally inaccessible except by trail.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Boating

It is possible to run the Nowitna in many kinds of boats, including hard-shell, folding, or inflatable canoes and kayaks or inflatable rafts. Most of the river is slow-moving and meandering, rated Class I (easy) on the International Scale of River Difficulty. The exception occurs in Nowitna Canyon between Mastodon Creek and Big Mud River along the middle reaches of the Nowitna. This segment includes Class II (medium) rapids.<ref name="Jettmar">Template:Cite book</ref>

Dangers include black bears as well as rapids. Navigating can be difficult at times because of upriver winds, especially on the lower reaches.<ref name="Jettmar"/>

See also

• List of National Wild and Scenic Rivers
• List of rivers of Alaska

External links

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• Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service