Connecticut River facts for kids

Map of the Connecticut River watershed

The Connecticut River is the largest river in New England, which is a region in the eastern United States. It is about 407 miles (655 km) long, with a watershed covering about 11,250 square miles (29,137 square kilometers). Every second, it pours about 19,600 cubic feet (560 cubic meters) per second into its mouth at Long Island Sound, part of the Atlantic Ocean. The river flows through the U.S. states of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Interstate 91 parallels the river for a notably long distance.

The largest city on the Connecticut River is Springfield, Massachusetts. The second largest city is Hartford, Connecticut, the state capital of Connecticut. The two great cities are only 23.9 miles apart (38.5 km.)

Tributaries

CT denotes Connecticut, VT Vermont, NH New Hampshire, and MA Massachusetts.

Other pages

• List of rivers of Connecticut

Images for kids

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  View of Springfield on the Connecticut River by Alvan Fisher (Brooklyn Museum)

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  View of the City of Hartford, Connecticut by William Havell

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  View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow (1836) by Thomas Cole

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  The Memorial Bridge across the Connecticut River at Springfield, Massachusetts, the river's largest city

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  The Windsor Locks Canal Company at Enfield Falls, the Connecticut River's first major barrier to navigation

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  The Oxbow, Connecticut River, circa 1910

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  Downtown Hartford, Connecticut, during the 1936 flood

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  The Connecticut Lakes, the source of the Connecticut River, near the border of New Hampshire and Quebec

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  Great Falls (Bellows Falls) at high flow under the Vilas Bridge, taken from the end of Bridge St on the Vermont side, looking upriver

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  Satellite image of the Connecticut River depositing silt into Long Island Sound

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  Drift boat fishing guide working the river near Colebrook, New Hampshire

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  Harbor seal in the Connecticut River, below the Holyoke Dam, following the shad run

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  Riverbank restoration project in Fairlee, Vermont

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  Near First Connecticut Lake

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  Near Colebrook, New Hampshire

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  Looking north from the French King Bridge at the Erving-Gill town line in western Massachusetts

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  Mist upstream of the Bissell Bridge between Windsor and South Windsor, CT

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  Founders Bridge in Hartford, with a view of the Bulkeley Bridge upstream

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  The river near its mouth

See also

In Spanish: Río Connecticut para niños