The river enters southwestern Pennsylvania on the border between Fayette and Somerset counties. It flows northwest through a gap in Chestnut Ridge and then past Connellsville. It joins the …

The Youghiogheny River is an incredible and unique resource, both as a natural and a cultural asset. It is a relatively “big water” river that flows from the crest of the Appalachians northward, flows 365 …

The Youghiogheny is the only river in western Maryland that does not flow south into the Potomac River. Its name is derived from the Algonquian word meaning “contrary stream.”

The 134-mile Youghiogheny River flows north from West Virginia and Western Maryland, passes through the heart of Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands, and flows into the Monongahela River.

It drains an area on the west side of the Allegheny Mountains northward into Pennsylvania, providing a small watershed in extreme western Maryland into the tributaries of the Mississippi River.

Paddlers, anglers, and outdoors-people from around the world visit the Yough every year. As the river cuts through the mountains in the south, kayakers play in whitewater rapids that give way to small …

Youghiogheny River is the only river in the United States that flows two ways. It begins near Friendsville, Maryland and flows south into a branch of the Potomac River and also flows north approximately 100 …