page_title: Stikine River
hierarchical_section_title: Stikine River
caption_attribution_description: Stikine River in British Coloumbia, Canada
context_page_description: The Stikine River is a river, historically also the Stickeen River, approximately 610 kilometres long, in northwestern British Columbia in Canada and in southeast Alaska in the United States.
  Its Grand Canyon represents the top grade in difficulty for a kayak descent. Considered one of the last truly wild major rivers in British Columbia, it drains a rugged, largely pristine, area east of the Coast Mountains, cutting a fast-flowing course through the mountains in deep glacier-lined gorges to empty into Eastern Passage, just north of the city of Wrangell, Alaska, which is situated at the north end of Wrangell Island in the Alexander Archipelago.
context_section_description: The Stikine River /stɪˈkiːn/ (Tlingit: Shtaxʼhéen) is a river, historically also the Stickeen River,  approximately 610 kilometres (380 mi) long, in northwestern British Columbia in Canada and in southeast Alaska in the United States.
  Its Grand Canyon represents the top grade in difficulty for a kayak descent. Considered one of the last truly wild major rivers in British Columbia, it drains a rugged, largely pristine, area east of the Coast Mountains, cutting a fast-flowing course through the mountains in deep glacier-lined gorges to empty into Eastern Passage, just north of the city of Wrangell, Alaska, which is situated at the north end of Wrangell Island in the Alexander Archipelago.
caption: The Stikine River (highlighted in orange) and British Columbia
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