The North Branch Bouquet River drains the eastern High Peaks watershed — collecting runoff from the Dix Range and the ridges east of Keene before merging with the main stem near Elizabethtown. It's a steep-gradient feeder stream: fast, cold, rocky, and largely inaccessible except where old logging roads or bushwhack routes cross it in the upper reaches. The drainage holds native brook trout in its headwater tributaries, though no formal stocking or survey data appears in DEC records. If you're hiking the Dix trail or pushing into the backcountry east of Round Pond, you'll cross or parallel sections of the North Branch — listen for it before you see it.
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