Shenandoah River

Shenandoah River
Crossing the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Shenandoah River drainage basin
Location
Country	United States
State	Virginia, West Virginia
Towns	Harpers Ferry, WV, Front Royal, VA, Luray, VA
Physical characteristics
Source	North Fork
• location	Shenandoah Mountain
2nd source	South Fork
• location	Port Republic
Source confluence
• location	Front Royal, VA
Mouth	Potomac River
• location	Harpers Ferry
• coordinates	39°19′21″N 77°43′40″W / 39.3226009°N 77.7277704°W / 39.3226009; -77.7277704[1]
• elevation	246 ft (75 m)[1]
Length	56 mi (90 km)
Basin size	2,937 sq mi (7,610 km2)
Discharge
• location	Millville, WV[2]
• average	2,755 cu ft/s (78.0 m3/s)
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	North Fork (Shenandoah River)
• right	South Fork (Shenandoah River)

The Shenandoah River /ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə/ is the principal tributary of the Potomac River, 55.6 miles (89.5 km) long with two forks approximately 100 miles (160 km) long each,^[3] in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. The river and its tributaries drain the central and lower Shenandoah Valley and the Page Valley in the Appalachians on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in northwestern Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.^[1] There is a hydroelectric plant along the Shenandoah river constructed in 2014 by Dominion.