This is a list of river

River

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...

s in the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

 in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, sorted by watershed

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

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Colorado River

The Colorado River

Colorado River

The Colorado River , is a river in the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The watershed of the Colorado River covers in parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states...

 is a major river in the Western U.S., emptying into the Gulf of California

Gulf of California

The Gulf of California is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland...

. Rivers are listed upstream by the point they empty into the Colorado.

• (Meadow Valley Wash
  Meadow Valley Wash
  The Meadow Valley Wash is a southern Nevada stream draining the Meadow Watershed that is bordered on 3 sides by the Great Basin Divide. The wash's Lincoln County headpoint is in the Wilson Creek Range, and the wash includes 2 upper confluences . Panaca is along the upper wash, and downstream of...
  
   is located entirely in Nevada, but its watershed has several extremely small portions in Utah)
• Virgin River
  Virgin River
  The Virgin River is a tributary of the Colorado River in the U.S. states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. The river is about long. It was designated Utah's first wild and scenic river in 2009, during the centennial celebration of Zion National Park.-Course:...
  
  
  • Beaver Dam Wash
    Beaver Dam Wash
    The Beaver Dam Wash is a seasonal stream near the southwestern Utah-Nevada border. At its southern end in northern Arizona, near the point where it empties into the Virgin River, the stream flows throughout the year....
    
    
  • Santa Clara River
    Santa Clara River (Utah)
    The Santa Clara River is a river whose three forks join above Pine Valley in the Pine Valley Mountains in Washington County, Utah, United States. It flows west, then south, then briefly southeast before joining the Virgin River just south of St. George...
    
    
  • Fort Pearce Wash
  • East Fork Virgin River
  • North Fork Virgin River
• Kanab Creek
  Kanab Creek
  Kanab Creek is one of the many tributaries of the Grand Canyon. It begins in Kane County, Utah, just south of the watershed to the Great Basin and flows south to the Colorado River. It passes Kanab, Utah, crossing the border to Arizona near Fredonia...
  
  
• Paria River
  Paria River
  The Paria River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately long, in southern Utah and northern Arizona in the United States. It drains a rugged and arid region northwest of the Colorado, flowing through roadless slot canyons along part of its course....
  
  
  • Buckskin Gulch
    Buckskin Gulch
    The Buckskin Gulch, a canyon in southern Utah, is one of the main tributaries of the Paria River, which is itself a minor tributary of the Colorado River. It is the longest and deepest slot canyon in the southwest United States and may very well be the longest in the world...
    
    
• San Juan River
  • Chinle Creek
  • Montezuma Creek
    Montezuma Creek (San Juan River)
    Montezuma Creek is a tributary of the San Juan River. The river is approximately long and is a seasonal river, becoming dry for several months of the year.-Location:...
    
    
  • McElmo Creek
    McElmo Creek
    McElmo Creek is a tributary that joins the San Juan River in San Juan County, Utah. The creek's source is just east of Cortez in Montezuma County, Colorado.-See also:*List of rivers of Colorado*List of rivers of Utah...
    
    
• Escalante River
  Escalante River
  right|Location of the Escalante River within UtahThe Escalante River is a tributary of the Colorado River. It is formed by the confluence of North and Birch Creeks near the town of Escalante in south-central Utah, and from there flows southeast for approximately before joining Lake Powell...
  
  
  • Coyote Gulch
    Coyote Gulch
    Coyote Gulch is a tributary of the Escalante River, located in Garfield and Kane Counties in southern Utah, in the western United States. Over 25 miles long, it exhibits many of the geologic features found in the Canyons of the Escalante, including high vertical canyon walls, narrow slot canyons,...
    
    
• Dirty Devil River
  Dirty Devil River
  The Dirty Devil River is a long tributary of the Colorado River, located in the U.S. state of Utah. It flows through southern Utah from the confluence of Fremont River and Muddy Creek to the Colorado River.-Course:...
  
  
  • Fremont River
    Fremont River (Utah)
    The Fremont River in Utah flows from the Johnson Valley Reservoir, which is located on the Wasatch Plateau near Fish Lake, southwest through Capitol Reef National Park to the Muddy Creek near Hanksville where the two rivers combine to form the Dirty Devil River, a tributary of the Colorado River...
    
    
  • Muddy Creek
    Muddy Creek (Utah)
    Muddy Creek is a stream which drains portions of Emery and Wayne Counties in central Utah, in the western United States. It begins on the eastern slopes of the Wasatch Plateau at elevations above 10,500 feet . It turns southward near the town of Emery, then southeastward where it crosses under...
    
    
• Green River
  Green River (Utah)
  The Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River. The watershed of the river, known as the Green River Basin, covers parts of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The Green River is long, beginning in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming and flowing...
  
  
  • San Rafael River
  • Price River
    Price River
    The Price River is a river in the state of Utah, in the United States. The river originates in the Wasatch Plateau in central Utah and flows southeastward through Price Canyon, alongside U.S. Route 6, to the cities of Helper and Price...
    
    
    • Range Creek
      Range Creek
      Range Creek, rising in the Book Cliffs in Emery County, Utah, is a high tributary of the Colorado River. It flows into the Price River near Price, Utah. The Price then flows into the Green River, a major tributary of the Colorado...
      
      
  • Willow Creek
  • White River
    White River (Utah)
    The White River is a tributary of the Green River, approximately long, in the U.S. states of Colorado and Utah. Flows vary from 450 ft³/s late summers in dry years to well over 12,000 ft³/s in spring....
    
    
  • Duchesne River
    Duchesne River
    The Duchesne River, located in Uintah Basin region of Utah in the western United States, is a tributary of the Green River. The watershed of the river covers the Northeastern corner of Utah...
    
    
    • Uinta River
      • Whiterocks River
    • Strawberry River
      Strawberry River (Utah)
      The Strawberry River is an river located in eastern Utah, United States.Strawberry River's headwaters are located in the Wasatch Mountains of the western Uintah Basin...
      
      
  • Ashley Creek
  • Brush Creek
  • Jones Hole Creek (Diamond Gulch)
  • Cart Creek (Cart Creek)
  • Carter Creek (Carter Creek)
  • Sheep Creek (Sheep Creek)
  • Henrys Fork
  • Blacks Fork
    Blacks Fork
    Blacks Fork is a tributary of the Green River in Utah and Wyoming. The river rises on the northern side of the Uinta Mountains as the combination of three streams draining the area around Tokewanna Peak near the Utah-Wyoming border...
    
    
    • Muddy Creek
• Kane Springs Creek
• Dolores River
  Dolores River
  The Dolores River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 250 mi long, in the U.S. states of Colorado and Utah....
  
  
  • La Sal Creek

Great Salt Lake

The Great Salt Lake

Great Salt Lake

The Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere, the fourth-largest terminal lake in the world. In an average year the lake covers an area of around , but the lake's size fluctuates substantially due to its...

 is the largest lake in the Great Basin

Great Basin

The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America and is noted for its arid conditions and Basin and Range topography that varies from the North American low point at Badwater Basin to the highest point of the contiguous United States, less than away at the...

. Rivers are listed in a clockwise direction.

• Bear River
  Bear River (Utah)
  The Bear River is a river, approximately long, in southwestern Wyoming, southeastern Idaho, and northern Utah, in the United States. The largest tributary of the Great Salt Lake, it drains a mountainous area and farming valleys northeast of the lake and southeast of the Snake River Plain...
  
  
  • Malad River
    Malad River (Utah)
    The Malad River is a tributary of the Bear River in southeastern Idaho and northern Utah in the United States. The river flows southward, beginning northwest of Malad City, Idaho, crosses the Idaho-Utah state line just north of Portage, Utah, flows through Tremonton, and empties into the Bear...
    
    
  • Little Bear River
    Little Bear River
    The Little Bear River is a tributary of the Bear River in northern Utah in the United States. It rises in the mountains east of Brigham City, where three forks join at Avon, then flows north to Paradise...
    
    
    • Logan River
      Logan River (Utah)
      The Logan River is a tributary of the Little Bear River in Utah, the United States. It is currently being studied to determine whether it is suitable for National Wild and Scenic Rivers designation.- Course :...
      
      
  • Cub River
  • Bear Lake
    Bear Lake (Idaho-Utah)
    Bear Lake is a natural freshwater lake on the Utah-Idaho border in the Western United States. It is the second largest natural freshwater lake in Utah and has been called the "Caribbean of the Rockies" for its unique turquoise-blue color, the result of suspended limestone deposits in the water...
    
    
• Weber River
  Weber River
  The Weber River is a c. long river of northern Utah, USA. It begins in the northwest of the Uinta Mountains and empties into the Great Salt Lake. The Weber River was named for American fur trapper John Henry Weber.-Weber River:...
  
  
  • Ogden River
    Ogden River
    The Ogden River is a long river in Utah.The Ogden River's three forks begin in the Wasatch Range in Weber County and converge at Pineview Reservoir, near Huntsville...
    
    
• Jordan River
  Jordan River (Utah)
  The Jordan River in the U.S. state of Utah is a river about long. Regulated by pumps at its headwaters at Utah Lake, it flows northward through the Salt Lake Valley and empties into the Great Salt Lake. Four of Utah's five largest cities—Salt Lake City, West Valley City, West Jordan and...
  
  
  • City Creek
  • Utah Lake
    Utah Lake
    Utah Lake is a freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Utah. On the western side of Utah Valley, the lake is overlooked by Mount Timpanogos and Mount Nebo. The lake's only river outlet, the Jordan River, is a tributary of the Great Salt Lake and is highly regulated with pumps. Evaporation accounts...
    
    
    • American Fork River
    • Provo River
      Provo River (Utah)
      The Provo River is located in Utah County and Wasatch County, Utah, in the United States. It rises in the Uinta Mountains at Washington Lake and flows about southwest to Utah Lake at the city of Provo, Utah.-Course:...
      
      
    • Spanish Fork

Other Great Basin

A number of other drainage systems are located in the Great Basin

Great Basin

The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America and is noted for its arid conditions and Basin and Range topography that varies from the North American low point at Badwater Basin to the highest point of the contiguous United States, less than away at the...

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• Curlew Valley
• Escalante Desert
  Escalante Desert
  The Escalante Desert is a geographic Great Basin region and arid desert ecoregion, in the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, located in southwestern Utah.-Geography:...
  
  
• Great Salt Lake Desert
  Great Salt Lake Desert
  The Great Salt Lake Desert is a large dry lake in northern Utah between the Great Salt Lake and the Nevada border which is noted for white sand from evaporite Lake Bonneville salt deposits...
  
  
  • Miry Wash
    • Grouse Creek
      • Thousand Springs Creek
• Hamlin Valley
  Hamlin Valley
  Hamlin Valley is a north-south trending valley of the Great Basin located near the Nevada–Utah state line. It is about long.Hamlin Valley lies between the Mountain Home Range and Indian Peak Range on the east and south, and the Needle Mountains, White Rock Mountains, and Limestone Hills on the...
  
  
• Pilot Creek Valley
• Pine Valley
• Rush Valley
  • Harker Creek
    Harker Creek (Utah)
    Harker Creek is a stream located in Tooele County, Utah, USA.The upper portion of the creek forms Harker Canyon, and drains from west to east on the southern side of the Sheeprock Mountains, a small mountain group in the larger Wasatch Range. The lower portion of the creek drains from south to...
    
    
• Sevier Lake
  Sevier Lake
  Sevier Lake is an intermittent and endorheic lake which lies in the lowest part of the Sevier Desert, Millard County, Utah. Like Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake, it is a remnant of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. Sevier Lake is fed primarily by the Beaver and Sevier rivers, and the additional inflow...
  
  
  • Sevier River
    Sevier River
    The Sevier River , extending , is the longest Utah river entirely in the state and drains an extended chain of mountain farming valleys to the intermittent Sevier Lake...
    
    
    • Beaver River
    • San Pitch River
    • Mammoth Creek
      Mammoth Creek
      Mammoth Creek is a Utah creek which flows for over 20 miles through mountains and forests from Mammoth Summit , through the Mammoth Valley, to its confluence with the Sevier River . The creek contains wild brown trout and hatchery rainbow trout.-External links:*...
      
      
    • Clear Creek
      Clear Creek (Utah)
      Clear Creek is a creek in Utah which joins the Sevier River near the city of Sevier. It flows alongside Interstate 70 just east of where I-70 meets I-15....
      
      
    • East Fork Sevier River
• Skull Valley
  Skull Valley
  The Skull Valley Indian Reservation is the Goshute Indian reservation located approximately 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. It belongs to the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians of Utah, a federally recognized tribe....
  
  
• Snake Valley
• Tooele Valley
• Tule Valley
  Tule Valley
  Tule Valley, also known as White Valley, is a north-south trending endorheic valley within the Great Basin , Great Basin Desert , and Basin and Range Province of west-central Utah...
  
  
• Wah Wah Valley
  Wah Wah Valley
  Wah Wah Valley is an endorheic valley within the Basin and Range of west-central Utah. It is bound by the Wah Wah Mountains to the west and south and the San Francisco Mountains to the east...
  
  

Snake River

The Snake River

Snake River

The Snake is a major river of the greater Pacific Northwest in the United States. At long, it is the largest tributary of the Columbia River, the largest North American river that empties into the Pacific Ocean...

, which flows into the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...

 via the Columbia River

Columbia River

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, flows northwest and then south into the U.S. state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state...

, does not enter Utah, but some of its tributaries drain northwestern Utah.

• Goose Creek
• Raft River
  Raft River
  The Raft River is a tributary of the Snake River located in northern Utah and southern Idaho in the United States. It is part of the Columbia River Basin.-Course:...
  
  

See also

• List of rivers in the Great Basin
• List of rivers in the United States