WATERWAYS

RIVERS

Most rivers in Maryland run into Chesapeake Bay.

The Scenic and Wild Rivers Program is overseen by the State Forest and Park Service of the Department of Natural Resources.

Patuxent River with Solomons Island Bridge in distance (view from St. Mary's County), Maryland, May 2000. Solomons Island Bridge links Calvert and St. Mary's counties in southern Maryland. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

• Anacostia River
• Antietam River
• Avon River
• Back River
• Back Wye River
• Big Annemessex River
• Big Patuxent River
• Bird River
• Blackwater River
• Bohemia River
• Bush River

  Sailboat on Severn River, Annapolis, Maryland, April 2001. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

• Casselman River
• Chester River
• Chicamacomico River
• Choptank River
• Corsica River
• Eastern Branch River (part of Anacostia)
• Elk River
• Front Wye River
• Gunpowder River
• Hawlings River
• Honga River
• Hudson River (Little Choptank)
• Little Annemessex River
• Little Blackwater River
• Little Choptank River
• Little Magothy River
• Little Monocacy River
• Little Patuxent River
• Little Savage River
• Little Youghiogheny River
• Magothy River
• Manokin River
• Middle River
• Middle Patuxent River
• Miles River
• Monocacy River
• Nanticoke River
• North Branch Patapsco River
• North Branch Potomac River
• North River (branch of South River)
• Northeast River
• Patapsco River
• Patuxent River
• Port Tobacco River
• Pocomoke River
• Potomac River

• Rhode River
• St. George River
• St. Martin River
• St. Mary's River
• Sassafras River
• Savage River

  Sassafras River at Georgetown, Kent County, Maryland, April 2002. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

• Severn River
• South River
• South Branch Patapsco River
• Susquehanna River
• Transquaking River
• Tred Avon River

  Piers on Severn River, Annapolis, Maryland, June 2000. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

• Warwick River
• West River
• Whitehall River
• Wicomico River
• Wye East River
• Wye River
• Youghiogheny River

  Also see: Maryland Geological Survey's Rivers in Maryland

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