page_title: Pike River (Missisquoi Bay tributary)
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Pike River (Missisquoi Bay tributary) / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Frelighsburg, Montérégie (Québec) - La rivière aux Brochets en amont du moulin Freligh
context_page_description: Pike River is a tributary of lake Champlain, flowing successively in:
  Franklin County, Vermont, in northern Vermont; and
  the municipalities of Frelighsburg, Stanbridge East, Bedford, Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, Pike River and Saint-Armand, in Brome-Missisquoi, in the administrative region of Montérégie, in the south of province of Quebec, Canada.
  Besides the village areas, agriculture and forestry are the main economic activities in this valley.
  The river surface is generally frozen from mid-December to the end of March. Safe traffic on the ice is generally from late December to early March. The water level of the river varies with the seasons and the precipitation.
context_section_description: The stream's source is in Quebec on the south side of Mount Pinacle. After flowing into Vermont it receives the outflow of Lake Carmi and flows back into Quebec for the remainder of its course.
  The main town of the watershed is Bedford but the municipalities of Saint-Armand, Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, Saint-Ignace-de-Stanbridge, Pike River (the eponymous municipality) and Frelighsburg.
  Its course, about sixty kilometers long, oriented to the north, is mainly located in Quebec. More than 85% of its watershed, ie 670 square kilometres (260 sq mi), is thus located on the territory of the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality in the south of the Montérégie.
  From Carmi Lake, the river flows 3.2 km north to the Canada - United States border.
  From the border, the river flows 5.1 km north north to Selby Creek (coming from the northeast); then 1.4 km north-west to the village bridge at Frelighsburg.
  North of the border, the river crosses a series of falls and rapids) interspersed with long, slow-flowing sections, crossing Frelighsburg, Stanbridge East and Bedford before leaving the Appalachians to reach the plain of St. Lawrence Lowlands. A series of close falls are contained by five dams. Further downstream, the course of the river becomes winding, making a long detour via Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, then crossing the last rapids at Pike River to finish its course through swampy forests. The Brochets River is a tributary of the northeast shore of Missisquoi Bay in Quebec.
  The main watershed municipality is Bedford but the municipalities of Saint-Armand, Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, Saint-Ignace-de-Stanbridge, Pike River and Frelighsburg are also included.
caption: The Brochet River upstream of the Freligh mill in Frelighsburg.
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