The Fremont River is a long

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in southeastern

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, United States that flows from the Johnson Valley Reservoir, which is located on the

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near Fish Lake, southeast through

Capitol Reef National Park Capitol Reef National Park is an American national park in south-central Utah. The park is approximately long on its northsouth axis and just wide on average. The park was established in 1971 to preserve of desert landscape and is open all ye ...

to the Muddy Creek near Hanksville where the two rivers combine to form the

Dirty Devil River The Dirty Devil River is an tributary of the Colorado River, located in the U.S. state of Utah. It flows through southern Utah from the confluence of the Fremont River and Muddy Creek before emptying into the Colorado River at Lake Powell. Cour ...

, a tributary of the

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Course

The Johnson Valley Reservoir is fed by Sevenmile Creek (from the north) and Lake Creek (from the southwest). The Fremont River passes through Fremont,

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, Lyman, Bicknell, Teasdale, and Torrey and provides year-round irrigation for the agricultural lands of Rabbit Valley and

Caineville Caineville is an unincorporated community in central Wayne County, Utah, United States. Description The community is located east of Capitol Reef National Park and west of Hanksville, along the Fremont River and Utah State Route 24. The set ...

. Then it heads through Hanksville and afterward to its mouth.

Miscellaneous

The Fremont River has a drainage area of fed by spring snowmelt off

Thousand Lake Mountain Thousand Lake Mountain is a mountain in northwest Wayne County, Utah, Wayne County, Utah, United States, just northwest of Capitol Reef National Park and north of Boulder Mountain (Utah), Boulder Mountain. Description Thousand Lake Mountain is su ...

, Boulder Mountain, and the northern

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. The river is named after

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. It gives its name to the

Fremont culture The Fremont culture or Fremont people is a pre-Columbian archaeological culture which received its name from the Fremont River in the U.S. state of Utah, where the culture's sites were discovered by local indigenous peoples like the Navajo and Ute ...

, a

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Flow

Flow (ft^3/s), by month (1977–2003), at Bicknell gauging station:

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Rivers of Utah Rivers of Wayne County, Utah Rivers of Sevier County, Utah Capitol Reef National Park Tributaries of the Colorado River in Utah {{Utah-river-stub

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