List of designated rivers

Tentative List of American Heritage Rivers*

Mississippi River

Upper Mississippi River:
headwaters to East St. Louis,
Illinois; Quad
Cities, Iowa

Middle Mississippi River:
at Memphis, Tennessee

Lower Mississippi:
Louisiana (Baton Rouge to New Orleans)

Alabama:
Chattahoochee River

California:
Santa Clara River
Santa Rosa Creek

Colorado:
South Platte River

Florida:
St. Johns River
Everglades

Georgia:
Chattahoochee River

Illinois:
Chicago-Illinois Rivers Watershed
Mississippi River (to East
St. Louis)

Iowa:
Mississippi River (Quad Cities)

Hawaii:
Hanalei River

Louisiana:
Lower Mississippi (Baton Rouge to New Orleans)

Maryland and D.C.:
Potomac and Anacostia Rivers

Massachusetts:
Connecticut River

Michigan:
Detroit River

Missouri:
Mississippi

New York:
Hudson River
Bronx River

North Carolina:
Lower Neuse River
New River

Ohio:
Muskingum River
Ohio River

Oregon:
Willamette River

Pennsylvania:
Upper Susquehanna-Lackawanna Watershed
“Rivers of Steel”
at Pittsburgh (Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers)

Rhode Island:
Blackstone-Woonasquatucket Rivers

South Carolina:
Edisto River Basin

Tennessee:
Cumberland River
Mississippi River at Memphis and its
tributaries, the Wolf and Nonconnah Rivers at Memphis

Texas:
Rio Grande River

Virginia:
Potomac
Rappahannock River

Washington:
Puyallup River Watershed

* Advisory Committee members will recommend 20 rivers to President
Clinton, from which he will choose 10 for designation as heritage
rivers.