Maine / Rivers / Kennebec River

Kennebec River

Moosehead Lake → Merrymeeting Bay / Gulf of Maine

Length

170

miles · published figure, not every bend

Drainage

5,869

square miles of land that feed this river

Live flow

1,680 cubic feet per second

instant · Kennebec River at North Sidney, Maine · 2026-10-11

Tied lake

Moosehead Lake

75,473 acres

Daily mean at the gage

Kennebec River at North Sidney, Maine · site 01049265. One gage, not the whole river. 370 published days, Sep 30, 2025 – Oct 4, 2026. Cubic feet per second.

Counties along the run

Kennebec · Piscataquis · Sagadahoc · Somerset