The Ahnapee River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed December 19, 2011 river on the Door Peninsula in eastern Wisconsin in the United States. It rises in Door County, Wisconsin, and flows through Kewaunee County into Lake Michigan at the city of Algoma. Its name has been ascribed as coming from the Ojibwe word aanapii meaning "when?".
Course The Ahnapee rises in southern Door County and flows generally southeastwardly into northeastern Kewaunee County, past the village of Forestville, where it is dammed. Downstream of Forestville the river becomes a freshwater estuary of Lake Michigan and is paralleled by a rail trail called the Ahnapee State Trail. It joins Lake Michigan at the city of Algoma.Interactive trail map showing the Ahnapee river ending in Algoma (the Ice Age Trail joins the Ahnapee trail for several parts) The length of the river from Forestville to Algoma has ten public access points.Ahnapee River Water Trail Plan by the Bay-Lake Regional Planning Commission, June 2019, page 4 (electronic page 8)
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See also List of Wisconsin rivers
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External links Wisconsin DNR page about Ahnapee River Wetlands, including photographs A Canoe Trip on the Ahnapee River with Herb Klein and Cal Holvenstadt, produced by Laddie Chapman, Sevastopol Channel 19, Saturday May 10, 2007 Ahnapee River Water Trail Interactive Tour Map