page_title: Tanana River
section_title: Major tributaries (in descending order of elevation)
hierarchical_section_title: Tanana River / Major tributaries (in descending order of elevation)
caption_attribution_description: English: Bridge over the Tanana River, Nenana, Alaska, United States Español: Puente sobre el río Tanana, Nenana, Alaska, Estados Unidos
context_page_description: The Tanana River is a 584-mile tributary of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to linguist and anthropologist William Bright, the name is from the Koyukon tene no, tenene, literally "trail river".
  The river's headwaters are located at the confluence of the Chisana and Nabesna rivers just north of Northway in eastern Alaska. The Tanana flows in a northwest direction from near the border with the Yukon Territory, and laterally along the northern slope of the Alaska Range, roughly paralleled by the Alaska Highway. In central Alaska, it emerges into a lowland marsh region known as the Tanana Valley and passes south of the city of Fairbanks.
  In the marsh regions it is joined by several large tributaries, including the Nenana and the Kantishna. It passes the village of Manley Hot Springs and empties into the Yukon near the town of Tanana.
  Ice on the river accumulates each winter to an average maximum thickness of 43 inches at Nenana. The Nenana Ice Classic, begun in 1917, is an annual guessing game about the date of the ice break-up. In October or November, after the freeze has begun, a tripod is planted in ice in the middle of the river.
context_section_description: Chisana River
  Nabesna River
  Kalutna River
  Tok River
  Robertson River
  Johnson River
  Little Gerstle River
  Healy River
  Volkmar River
  Gerstle River
  Clearwater Creek
  Goodpaster River
  Delta River
  Delta Creek
  Little Delta River
  Salcha River
  Little Salcha River
  Chena River
  North Fork
  South Fork
  Wood River
  Tatlanika River
  Nenana River
  Teklanika River
  Seventeen Mile Slough
  Tolovana River
  Kantishna River
  Zitziana River
  Cosna River
  Chitanana River
caption: Bridge over the Tanana River in Nenana.
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