The Youghiogheny River ( yok-ə-GAY-nee), or the Yough ( YOK) for short, is a 134-mile-long (216 km) tributary of the Monongahela River in West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. 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.
Youghiogheny is a Lenape word meaning "a stream flowing in a contrary direction".
The Youghiogheny River ( yok-ə-GAY-nee), or the Yough ( YOK) for short, is a 134-mile-long (216 km) tributary of the Monongahela River in West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. 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.
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