Wabash River

Indiana's state river and the longest free-flowing river east of the Mississippi. The Wabash runs 503 miles from Ohio across Indiana to the Ohio River, delivering one of the great smallmouth bass fisheries in the Midwest plus excellent walleye, catfish, and a surprisingly robust lake sturgeon population in the lower river. Immortalized in the state song “On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away,” the river passes Lafayette (site of the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe), Terre Haute, and the historic New Harmony community before joining the Ohio at the Illinois line. The entire length is unobstructed by dams from Huntington downstream — the longest undammed reach east of the Mississippi.