Ammonoosuc River

	Ammonoosuc River
	River
	The Lower Falls of the Ammonoosuc
Country	USA
State	New Hampshire
	Tributaries
- left	Gale River, Wild Ammonoosuc River
Source	Lakes of the Clouds
- elevation	5,025 ft (1,532 m)
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Mouth	Connecticut River
- location	Woodsville, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
- elevation	430 ft (131 m)
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Length	55 mi (89 km)

"Upper Falls of the Ammonoosuc, White Mountains, N.H." stereoscopic image by the Bierstadt Brothers

The Ammonoosuc River is a river, 55 mi (89 km) long, in northwestern New Hampshire in the United States.^[1]^[2] It is a tributary of the Connecticut River, which flows to Long Island Sound. "Ammonoosuc" is Abnaki for "small, narrow fishing place". ^[3]

The Ammonoosuc rises on the western slope of Mount Washington,^[1] in Sargent's Purchase in the White Mountains of southern Coos County. One branch of the river is the outlet of the Lakes of the Clouds in the saddle between Mount Washington and Mount Monroe. Leaving the vicinity of the Presidential Range, the river flows westwardly into Grafton County, where it turns southwestwardly. Along its course the Ammonoosuc passes through Chandler's Purchase, Bean's Grant, and Crawford's Purchase; and the towns of Carroll, Bethlehem, Littleton, Lisbon, Landaff, Bath, and Haverhill to the village of Woodsville, where it flows into the Connecticut River. It collects the Gale River in Lisbon, and the Wild Ammonoosuc River in Bath.^[4]

Variant names and spellings

The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Ammonoosuc River" as the stream's name in 1936. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known as:^[2]