Peel River (Canada)

For the Australian river, see Peel River (New South Wales).

Peel River
River
Peel River, 1845
Country	Canada
Province	Yukon, Northwest Territories
Source	Ogilvie Mountains
Mouth	Mackenzie River
- location	Mackenzie Delta
- coordinates	67°0′0″N 134°59′3″W
Basin	73,600 km2 (28,400 sq mi)

The Peel River (Teetl'it Gwinjik in Gwich’in) is a tributary of the Mackenzie River in the Yukon and Northwest Territories in Canada. Its source is in the Ogilvie Mountains in the central Yukon at the confluence of the Ogilvie River and Blackstone River. Its main tributaries are:

• Ogilvie River
• Blackstone River (Canada)
• Hart River
• Wind River (Yukon)
• Bonnet Plume River
• Snake River (Yukon)

The Peel River joins the Mackenzie in the Mackenzie Delta. However, a distributary of the Peel is the headwater for a channel that later collects distributaries of the Mackenzie. This means that a channel can be followed for a longer distance downriver until it, itself, disseminates into the shared delta. This arguably adds a greater length to the Peel River.

The Dempster Highway crosses it at Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories via a ferry during the summer months and an ice bridge during the winter. The Peel River is a wilderness river and Fort McPherson is the only community along its banks. The Yukon part of the Peel Watershed is undergoing land use planning

See also

• List of longest rivers of Canada
• List of rivers of the Northwest Territories
• List of rivers of Yukon