Boquet River

The Boquet River (pronounced BO-kwet) is a small river in upstate New York, United States. It was sometimes called the Bouquet River before a 1982 Board on Geographic Names decision. It is the steepest river in New York state, with a vertical drop of over 2,700 feet (823 m) over 40 miles (64 kilometers) from its source on Dix Mountain in the Adirondack Mountains to its mouth at Lake Champlain.
The South Fork of the Boquet originates on South Dix Mountain in North Hudson. It runs northeast through Keene and enters Elizabethtown where it joined from the west by the North Fork of the Boquet n...