River Runner, follow a rain drop all the way to the Gulf or Ocean

[mud]

Cool website, click anywhere in continental US and follow the water to the end.
https://river-runner.samlearner.com/

Longest travel I found so far.

Total Length: 5525 km
Heart Butte, Montana
1. Whitetail Creek (12 km)
2. Badger Creek (24 km)
3. Two Medicine River (51 km)
4. Marias River (278 km)
5. Missouri River (3283 km)
6. Mississippi River (1876 km)
Gulf of Mexico

[zion zig zag]

That's pretty cool.

[NW_SKIER]

Cool website, click anywhere in continental US and follow the water to the end.
https://river-runner.samlearner.com/

Longest travel I found so far.

Total Length: 5525 km
Heart Butte, Montana
1. Whitetail Creek (12 km)
2. Badger Creek (24 km)
3. Two Medicine River (51 km)
4. Marias River (278 km)
5. Missouri River (3283 km)
6. Mississippi River (1876 km)
Gulf of Mexico

How long is that in Freedom units?

[Harry]

Cool website, click anywhere in continental US and follow the water to the end.
https://river-runner.samlearner.com/

Longest travel I found so far.

Total Length: 5525 km
Heart Butte, Montana
1. Whitetail Creek (12 km)
2. Badger Creek (24 km)
3. Two Medicine River (51 km)
4. Marias River (278 km)
5. Missouri River (3283 km)
6. Mississippi River (1876 km)
Gulf of Mexico

I beat you.

Dell MT to Gulf o Mezico = 5880 klicks



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[RootSkier]

It stops at Canada for the rivers that start in MT and end up at Hudson Bay, I wonder if those would be longer than the MT > Gulf of Mexico runs.

[seano732]

What are these 'kilometers' you speak of?????

[mud]

What are these 'kilometers' you speak of?????

About the same as .895 Ogden's south of upstate NY.

[bennymac]

There are 2 places in NA where water flows away into 3 different oceans - one in Montana and one on the Alberta/BC border.

Basically mountain tops off which there is a three way continental divide.

I’m not explaining this well because beer.

Also - The Missouri river is longer than the Mississippi River - so any raindrop at the furtherst watershed of the Missouri should be the longest as it will follow all of the Missouri and most of the Mississippi yeah?

[muted reborn]

Norman Maclean would have loved this site. I very faintly remember him writing about pissing on the continental divide and wondering what ocean he was draining into.

Also, clicking on areas of the Great Basin is quite underwhelming.

[hutash]

That was done years ago...anyone remember "Take Me to the Sea"? It was one of those grade school movies from the 60s and was about somebody who carved a little wooden canoe and dropped it in a small creek and then followed it all the way to the Atlantic Ocean via the Great Lakes if I recall.

[bennymac]

Norman Maclean would have loved this site. I very faintly remember him writing about pissing on the continental divide and wondering what ocean he was draining into.

Also, clicking on areas of the Great Basin is quite underwhelming.

My wife and I will pee on top of mountains or ridges that are continental divides when we are hiking/backpacking.

[XXX-er]

What are these 'kilometers' you speak of?????

Kilometers are like the acoustic version of the mile

[Iowagriz]

6029 if I added correctly.

Southwest of Hebgen Lake, Montana. Then west of Henrys Lake, Idaho. Just north of Red Rock Mountain is a gravel road that is used for the Tour Divide MTB route.

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[Iowagriz]

There are 2 places in NA where water flows away into 3 different oceans - one in Montana and one on the Alberta/BC border.

Basically mountain tops off which there is a three way continental divide.

Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park is one of them.



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[John_B]

That was done years ago...anyone remember "Take Me to the Sea"? It was one of those grade school movies from the 60s and was about somebody who carved a little wooden canoe and dropped it in a small creek and then followed it all the way to the Atlantic Ocean via the Great Lakes if I recall.

I vaguely remember reading Paddle to the Sea which according to the almighty Wikipedia was made into a movie in the 60s.

[BCMtnHound]

There are 2 places in NA where water flows away into 3 different oceans - one in Montana and one on the Alberta/BC border.

Basically mountain tops off which there is a three way continental divide.

I’m not explaining this well because beer.

Also - The Missouri river is longer than the Mississippi River - so any raindrop at the furtherst watershed of the Missouri should be the longest as it will follow all of the Missouri and most of the Mississippi yeah?

Worked in the Bush Arm in the early 90's, when it was the end of the forestry road. A few of us decided on a lark to hike up the headwaters and try and reach Snow Dome. Road only went not even halfway up the river then, bushwacked for a bit up the valley, went up into the alpine along Ladylove for a bit, ran out of steam (whiskey and weed). Never been back, but would like to see that country again one day.

Spent some time about 4hrs drive north of Ft St James and stood up on the ridge with a decision to piss in the Susktut (Skeena), Driftwood (Fraser), or Omineca (Mackenzie). That one was close enough to the truck I had beer to load the bladder.

[MontuckyFried]

That was done years ago...anyone remember "Take Me to the Sea"? It was one of those grade school movies from the 60s and was about somebody who carved a little wooden canoe and dropped it in a small creek and then followed it all the way to the Atlantic Ocean via the Great Lakes if I recall.

I vaguely remember reading Paddle to the Sea which according to the almighty Wikipedia was made into a movie in the 60s.

Oh yeah! I remember that one! Here it is:

[Timberridge]

I call BS on all this.

I could pour a bottle of water on the ground next to the river and it would end up in a willow tree or some shit. It ain't even making it to the river.

[Vt-Freeheel]

^^^

[Timberridge]

Or it falls on your shithole condo next to Sugarbush and rots your T111 siding.

[Vt-Freeheel]

Swing and a miss, Hardie™ shingle and faux T-111™, rain sheds right off.

[hutash]

That is it...my memory is a little fuzzy after 50ish years. I forgot it was a book first, but I didn't know it was until many years later.

[BmillsSkier]

Cool toy, but it really doesn't know the canal system very well.

[bennymac]

You can see the triple point in the lower left - on top of the Colombia Icefields between Lake Louise and Jasper. There is also a small area in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan (in purple) that I think flows south into the Gulf of Mexico.

[bennymac]

Here are the US watersheds. You can just make out in the upper left where the triple point is - close to the border.