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The Ottauquechee River (pronounced AWT-ah-KWEE-chee) is a river, about 40 mi (65 km) long, in eastern Vermont in the United States.Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry It is a tributary of the Connecticut River, which flows to Long Island Sound.
The Ottauquechee rises in the Green Mountains in eastern Rutland County in the town of Killington, and flows generally eastwardly into Windsor County, where it passes through or along the boundaries of the towns of Bridgewater, Woodstock, Pomfret, Hartford and Hartland; and the villages of Woodstock and Quechee. It joins the Connecticut River in the town of Hartland, about 4 mi (6 km) south-southwest of White River Junction.DeLorme (1996). Vermont Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-016-9
A headwaters tributary known as the North Branch Ottauquechee River flows southeastwardly through the towns of Killington and Bridgewater.Geographic Names Information System entry for North Branch Ottauquechee River
Quechee State Park is located along the river near the village of Quechee. Near the river's mouth a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam causes the river to form North Hartland Lake.
Near the state park, the river flows through the 165 foot deep Quechee Gorge. The U.S. Rt. 4 bridge crosses over the gorge and provides good viewing down into its depths.*
Variant names and spellings
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names settled on "Ottauquechee River" as the stream's name in 1908. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as:Geographic Names Information System entry for Ottauquechee River
- Otta Quechee River
- Ottaquechee River
- Ottaqueeche River
- Queechee River
- Queechy River
- Water Quechee River
- Waterchuichi River
- Waterqueechy River
- Waterqueechy
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Rivers of Vermont | Rutland County, Vermont | Windsor County, Vermont
"Ottauquechee River"