Whitewater River

The Whitewater River is the crown jewel of the Minnesota Driftless Area trout country — a classic spring-fed limestone stream flowing 38 miles through Whitewater State Park and the Whitewater Wildlife Management Area in southeastern Minnesota. The river has three named branches (North, Middle, and South) that converge above Beaver, with cold spring flow and productive hatches supporting wild brown trout and stocked rainbow and brook trout. The Whitewater is Minnesota’s most-studied trout stream and the subject of a decades-long habitat restoration success story after extreme soil erosion nearly destroyed the fishery in the 1930s.