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Boquet River, New York

23 mapped river miles, draining 21 square miles, in the Lake Champlain basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 19.1 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is NYSDEC's classification of the water itself.

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Public land — where the bank is open to walk and fish

USGS gauge — live water temperature

Water temperature — the colour of the river, and of every dot on it

58 64 70

50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands, breaking at 58, 64 and 70°F, that the app paints. Grey is water nobody has measured.

The nearest gauge, and why there is no reading from it

The nearest gauge, 19.1 miles away at W Br Ausable R Trib 2 Ab St Hw 86 Nr Wilmington Ny, is not reporting water temperature: it has sent no water temperature for 1363 days, since 4 January 2023. A stopped gauge repeats its last value in silence, so there is no live temperature here. What is below is modelled from the years that gauge did report: this gauge's own fitted line, its intercept plus its slope against the 4-day mean air temperature over it, fitted on its own daily record, ±2.1 °F. The shape of the week at that gauge, not a thermometer in this stream.

Thermal classification

NYSDEC's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.

NYSDEC has classified 46.8 of the 47 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cold. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water NYSDEC's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.

Questions about this river

• Boquet River fishing report — what it reads right now
• How to get to the Boquet River — access, parking and public land
• Boquet River fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach

NYSDEC classification

NYSDEC classifies this water as Class A — drinking water source and Class C — fishing. More than one class appears because the classification changes along the river. The thermal bar above shows where. On those reaches DEC also designates it trout waters — which is the half of the classification that is about temperature, and the half this map paints by. The class is a designation of best usage under 6 NYCRR — what the water is protected for — and not the season and creel rules, which change yearly and live with the agency.

NYSDEC water quality classifications and standards →

Access

1 mapped NYSDEC access site within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Boquet River Angler Parking (RM 20.5). 1 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.

Public land on the river

12 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 8,126 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Species

NYSDEC designates this as trout water — Trout waters — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.

Tributaries and watershed

4 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

• North Branch Boquet River 23.2 mi · RM 5.2
• Beaver Brook 8.5 mi · RM 12.0
• Crooked Brook 6.1 mi · RM 17.4
• Brandywine Brook 2.3 mi · RM 0.0

Boquet River sits in HUC 8 04300108, the Lake Champlain basin, and drains 21 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 70 NHD reaches carry the name for 47.0 miles in total — more than the 23.1 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.

Other water nearby

The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.

• Spruce Mill Brook 3.1 mi
• Cold Brook 5.2 mi
• Black River 5.3 mi
• North Branch Boquet River 5.4 mi
• The Branch 5.6 mi
• Styles Brook 7.7 mi