v t e Route map of the Potomac River from the confluence of its North and South Branches to the Chesapeake Bay
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North Branch Potomac River West Virginia Maryland South Branch Potomac River Town Creek Little Cacapon River Fifteenmile Creek Paw Paw Bridge; WV 9 / MD 51 Sideling Hill Creek Cacapon River Sir Johns Run Grasshopper Run Hancock Bridge; US 522 Warm Spring Run Tonoloway Creek Sleepy Creek Licking Creek Cherry Run Back Creek Little Conococheague Creek Conococheague Creek Williamsport Pike Bridge; US 11 Maryland Veterans Memorial Bridge; I-81 Opequon Creek Rumsey (Shepherdstown) Bridge; WV 480 / MD 34 Rattlesnake Run Packhouse Ford Antietam Creek ″The Needles″ Rapids Shenandoah River Potomac Water Gap between Blue Ridge Mt (VA/WV) and Elk Ridge Mt (MD) Harpers Ferry Whitewater Pool White Horse Rapids West Virginia Virginia Potomac Water Gap between Short Hill Mt (VA) and South Mt (MD) Sandy Hook Bridge; US 340 Israel Creek Brunswick Bridge; SR 287 / MD 17 Catoctin Creek Little Catoctin Creek Catoctin Creek Potomac Water Gap between Furnace Mt (VA) and Pine Rock (MD) Point of Rocks Bridge; US 15 Heaters Island WMA (MD) White's Ford Nolands Ferry (historic) Tuscarora Creek Cheek's Ford Monocacy River Little Monocacy River Mason Island WMA (MD) White's Ferry; SR 655 / MD 107 Ball's Bluff (VA) and Harrison Island (MD) Broad Run Edwards Ferry (historic) Goose Creek Selden Island (MD) Broad Run Horsepen Creek Horsepen Branch McKee-Beshers Wildlife MGT Area Sharpshin Island (MD) Sugarland Run Old Sugarland Run Rowsers Ford Seneca Redstone Quarry (historic) Seneca Creek Seneca Rapids Blockhouse Point Promontory Muddy Branch Nichols Run Watts Branch Gladys Island (Potomac River) (MD) Cool Spring Branch Conn's Ferry (historic) Conn Island (Potomac River) (MD) Limekiln Branch Aqueduct Dam (supplies water to the Washington Aqueduct) [AQU] Beginning of Potomac Gorge Great Falls Carroll Branch O-Deck Rapids Olmsted Island (formerly Great Falls Island) (MD) Glade Hill (boulders and sediment left by the ancestral Potomac River)[GHL] Mine Run Branch Fishladder Rapids Bear Island and Billy Goat Trail, Section A (Maryland) Sherwin Island (formerly Cupid's Bower Island) (MD) S-Turn Rapids Rocky Island Rapids Rocky Island(s) and Hidden Gorge (MD) Ruins of Matildaville Beginning of Mather Gorge Wet Bottom Rapids Sandy Landing (boat ramp; take-out only) Difficult Run Difficult Run Rapids Cow Hoof Rock and Black Pond (site of most recent paleo-falls >30 kya) [BLK] (VA) Offutt Island (MD) Offutt Island Rapids Bullneck Run Rock Run Turkey Island (MD) Calico Rapids-Yellow Rapids Scott's Run Scott's Run Nature Preserve Stubblefield Rapids and Knickpoint (paleo falls ~200 kya) End of Mather Gorge American Legion/Cabin John Bridge; I-495 Capital Beltway Plummers Island (MD) Plummers Island Thrust Fault (inactive) [PIF] Dead Run Dead Run Rapids Turkey Run (Potomac River) Cabin John Creek Minnehaha Branch Sycamore Island (MD) Little Falls Dam and Dalecarlia Reservoir High Island Little Falls Little Falls Branch Maryland District of Columbia Western boundary of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line; Potomac Estuary begins [PES] Chain Bridge; SR 123 and Canal Road + Clara Barton Pkwy Pimmit Run Gulf Branch Donaldson Run Windy Run Spout Run Maddox Branch Three Sisters Island Foundry Branch Ruins of Aqueduct Bridge Francis Scott Key Bridge; US 29 Rock Creek End of Potomac Gorge Limit of navigation; Eastern boundary of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line Theodore Roosevelt Island[TRI] (DC) Theodore Roosevelt Bridge; I-66 / US 50 Rocky Run (paved over) Columbia Island (DC) Arlington Memorial Bridge Tidal Basin and Washington Channel George Mason Memorial Bridge; I-395 south / US 1 south Rochambeau Memorial Bridge; I-395 HOV  / US 1 Arland D. Williams Jr. Memorial Bridge; I-395 north / US 1 north Roaches Run Waterfowl Sanctuary Tiber Creek (paved over) Hains Point Anacostia River Four Mile Run Oxon Creek District of Columbia Maryland Woodrow Wilson Bridge; I-95 / I-495 Capital Beltway Jones Point Light Hunting Creek Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve Broad Creek Henson Creek Swan Creek Piscataway Creek Little Hunting Creek Mount Vernon Estate Dogue Creek Accotink Creek Pohick Creek Pomonkey Creek Mason Neck Wildlife Refuge Occoquan River Featherstone National Wildlife Refuge Neabsco Creek Powells Creek Mattawoman Creek Chicamuxen Creek Quantico Creek Chopawamsic Island (VA) Chopawamsic Creek Tank Creek Aquia Creek Crow's Nest Natural Area Preserve Potomac Creek Nanjemoy Creek Chotank Creek Port Tobacco River Popes Creek Gambo Creek Clifton Creek Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge; US 301 Piccowaxen Creek Upper Machodoc Creek Wicomico River Cobb Island (MD) St. Clement's Island (MD) Monroe Creek Mattox Creek Popes Creek St. Marys River Yeocomico River Coan River Hull Creek Point Lookout Light Smith Point Light Debouchment of the Potomac Estuary Chesapeake Bay

This is a route-map template for the Potomac River, a waterway in the United States.

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• For pictograms used, see Commons:BSicon/Catalogue.

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