Root River (Wisconsin)

General data

Water type: River
Progression: Lake Michigan -> Lake Huron -> St. Clair River -> Lake St. Clair (North America) -> Detroit river -> Lake Erie -> Niagara -> Lake Ontario -> St. Lawrence River -> Gulf of St. Lawrence -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
Climates: Continental
Continents: North America
Countries: United States of America

Description

The Root River is a 43.7-mile-long (70.3 km) river that flows to Lake Michigan at the city of Racine in southeastern Wisconsin in the United States. Racine and Racine County are named for the river, as racine is the French word for root. The Root River rises in the Waukesha County suburb of New Berlin and flows generally southeastwardly through the Milwaukee County suburbs of West Allis, Greenfield, Greendale and Franklin, into Racine County, where it enters Lake Michigan at Racine.

Root River (Wisconsin)

General data

Description

Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts

Brown trout (Salmo trutta)

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

Catches