Manistee River
| Manistee River Big Manistee River | |
|---|---|
The Manistee River in May 2007 | |
| Native name | Ministigweyaa (Ojibwe) |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Michigan |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Mancelona Township, Michigan |
| • coordinates | 44°56′06″N 084°52′06″W / 44.93500°N 84.86833°W |
| • elevation | 1,250 ft (380 m) |
| Mouth | Lake Michigan |
• location | Manistee, Michigan |
• coordinates | 44°15′00″N 086°20′40″W / 44.25000°N 86.34444°W |
• elevation | 579 ft (176 m) |
| Length | 190 mi (310 km) |
| Basin size | 1,780 sq mi (4,600 km2) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Little Manistee River, Pine River |
The Manistee River (/mænɪsti/ man-iss-TEE, seldom referred to as the Big Manistee River) is a 190-mile-long (310 km) river in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The river rises in the Northern Lower Peninsula, and flows in a generally southwesterly direction to its mouth at Lake Michigan at the eponymous city of Manistee.
The Manistee River is considered, like the nearby Au Sable River, to be one of the best trout fisheries east of the Rockies. The Manistee River is also being considered for restoration of Arctic grayling, which have been extirpated from the State of Michigan since 1936.