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Schuylkill River

PA • US

The Schuylkill River ( SKOOL-kil, locally SKOO-kəl) is a river in eastern Pennsylvania. It flows for 135 miles (217 km) from Pottsville southeast to Philadelphia, the sixth-largest city in the US, where it joins the Delaware River as one of its largest tributaries.
The river's watershed of about 2,000 mi2 (5,180 km2) lies entirely within the state of Pennsylvania, stretching from the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians through the Piedmont to the Atlantic Plain.
Historically the Schuylkill lay within the territory of the Susquehannock and Lenape peoples. In 1682, William Penn founded the city of...

128.6 mi total 1 sections 4 access points 1 camps 0 rapids

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Click any point for details. Sections without stored geometry are drawn as straight put-in → take-out lines — actual courses follow the river.

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