Wild Rice River (North Dakota)

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The Wild Rice River is a sluggish, northward-flowing tributary of the Red River of the North in southeastern North Dakota in the United States. Its tributaries also drain a small part of northern South Dakota.

The Wild Rice River is about 100 mi (160 km) long[1]. Via the Red River, Lake Winnipeg and the Nelson River, it is part of the watershed of Hudson Bay. It is one of two Red River tributaries by its name, the other being the Wild Rice River of Minnesota.

[edit] Course

The river rises as an intermittent stream in southeastern Sargent County and initially flows eastward in an extremely meandering course through Sargent and Richland Counties, through the Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge and past the towns of Cayuga, Mantador and Great Bend, where it turns northward. West of the city of Wahpeton it begins to parallel the Red River, and does so for the remainder of its course at a distance of three to seven miles from the Red while continuing to flow in a very winding channel. It joins the Red in Cass County, about 3 mi (5 km) south of the town of Frontier.