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The North Fork, the larger of the two forks, starts at the outlet of a small, unnamed lake opposite to Blue Lake near
Johnson Mountain. It flows generally northwest for most of its length. Near its confluence with the South Fork it then turns west and rushes through a gorge in which it drops over the
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North Fork Falls, a powerful plunge at least 58 feet (18 m) high. Shortly below it also drops over smaller Lower North Fork Falls. The North Fork converges with the South Fork near Bedal
Campground, forming the mainstem Sauk River.
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near the source of the North Fork Sauk River. The difficulty of access from the south led to the 1891 construction of a narrow wagon road along the Sauk River. The Sauk wagon road ran from Sauk City on the
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the source of the North Fork could be equally considered to be its tributary Cadet Creek, which joins the North Fork via
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Weden Creek: Joins about 2.3 miles (3.7 km) downstream from Monte Cristo.
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tribe), a group related to the Skagit tribes, not from the
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674:"Skagit Wild and Scenic River, Washington"
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460:Barlow Pass
406:Clear Creek
363:fly fishing
355:Puget Sound
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883:Categories
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489:North Fork
434:South Fork
390:Darrington
382:Bedal Peak
365:. It is a
347:Washington
339:Sauk River
320:Designated
243:Basin size
197:48°28′53″N
72:Washington
22:Sauk River
658:August 3,
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255:Discharge
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86:Snohomish
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394:Rockport
55:Location
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549:History
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863:ISBN
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