The Creek that Flows to Two Different Oceans... 

How far apart are the destinations compared to the pacific exit point and the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans ?

@@Fee.1 Closer. You may have noticed, watching a world map, that Western Europe is much smaller than North America! About 800 miles apart, I would say… but it is still two very different seas.

@@st-ex8506 no doubt. I know the size is warped dramatically on most world maps and globes etc so I was curious

@@Fee.1 Most maps we use (Mercator projection) are not warped at an approximately constant, and low latitude. They get warped, giving a much exaggerated apparent size to objects , for high latitudes. Russia, Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia, … are big places , but not nearly AS BIG as depicted on these maps. But at the latitudes of the continental USA, and of Central Europe, the deformation is negligible.

There is even a place in Switzerland that is a triple divide: water from there goes to the Mediterranean, to the North Sea, and to the Black Sea.

So, Canada has its own "Northwest Passage" that isn't the one in The Canadian Archepelago? Cool! Just like this "Two Ocean Creek" near Yellowstone National Park here in The U.S.A. As for Triple Divide Peak, you Canadians (I'm assuming you're Canadian) have a "Triple Divide Peak" of your own at Snow Dome, on The Alberta/British Columbia border. Water there flows to The Pacific, The Atlantic (Via Hudson Bay; It's disputed whether Hudson Bay flows to The Arctic, or Atlantic Oceans; I'm just going by the idea that it flows to The Atlantic for this explanation here), or The Arctic. Also, we Americans have a lot of "Triple Divide Peaks" in our country. There's one in Minnesota that divides water that flows to Hudson Bay, The Great Lakes/St. Lawrence River, and The Gulf of Mexico via The Mississippi River. There's also one in North-Central Pennsylvania that divides water that flows to The Great Lakes/St. Lawrence River, The Gulf of Mexico, and directly to The Atlantic Ocean. Finally, there's a couple of minor "Triple Divide Peaks" in Colorado, and NE Georgia that (In Colorado's case) flow to The Mississippi River, to The Rio Grande River, or The Pacific Ocean; or (In Georgia's case) water flows to The Mississippi River, The Atlantic Ocean Seaboard, or to The Gulf of Mexico via rivers not connected to The Mississippi River, such as The Chattahoochee/Apalachicola River(s). One more thing: There's a slice of Canadian land in Southern Alberta, and Saskatchewan where rivers flow south to The Mississippi River, and The Gulf of Mexico; not north to Hudson Bay, or The Arctic, like most Canadian rivers tend to do. How crazy is that? TL;DR Basically, Canada has its own "Triple Divide Peak"; We Americans have a lot of our own "Triple Divide Peaks"; and Canada has an odd hydrological fact that hopefully I just taught you about in this comment.

​@@gehrigstory6674, the river you're thinking of is the "Milk" river. But the thing is, that river doesn't originate in Canada. Its headwaters actually start in Montana, the river doglegs into Alberta ( Canada) before going back down to Montana.

@@BillK.1973 Thanks for that clarification. But what about any tributaries of The Milk River that do start in Canada, and flow to The Milk River? That would mean that there are some rivers that start in Southern Canada, and flow south/east to The Mississippi River, and not north/east to Hudson Bay. Just not The Milk River itself, though.

The Humboldt River isn't a huge river by any stretch of the imagination, but the truth that it just ends in a hole in the ground has always fascinated me. The Humboldt Sink.

Wow thats crazy about the salmon, that sht is why we need to protect our water ways and stop pollution

The SacrRiver. River really should be called the pit River due to the majority of its flow is from the pit river. Some of its water is seepage from Mt. Shasta.

@@skie6282 Calm down !

"salmon swim all the way to those [Jarbridge] headwaters in Nevada " MAYBE A LOT OF BULLSHIT-THEY'RE MOSTLY EXTERPATED; i'LL CONCEDE A COUPLE OF HUNDRED.

Wow, really interesting. Wikipedia page: Danube Sinkhole.

Wait, hang on, how the fuck does it cross the divide

@@alaeriia01 it flows underground in caves and cracks

Why is it impossible by definition. It's impossible for it to go over it, not under it.

@@luciustarquiniuspriscus1408 it is not a US feature. c'mon

Well written and thanks for sharing! For us more “modern folk” this brings a nice image to mind ! Cheers!

Two Ocean Pass was featured in a C.J. Box "Joe Pickett" novel "Out of Range". Your description adds to the info in the novel, especially the evidence of how the route was used for centuries. Thanks for adding to my reading experience!

Thank you for such interesting information. You excel at writing.

Thank you, just recalling it as I saw it. One of those places where you feel the power. Obviously left an impression me, and others.

One of my favorite examples!

And go throw the Chicago Sanitary Canal.

There's a few rapids in the way. But yes theoretically possible.

A husband/wife team went up the Amazon and down the Orinoco in a 21-ft sailboat with auxiliary power, writing about doing it in a book, The Five-Year Voyage: Exploring Latin American Coasts and Rivers by Stephen Ladd.

No llega a tocar Buenos Aires. Desemboca en la provincia de Río Negro, a través del río homónimo. Saludos!!

It is cool. Venezuela gives Amazonas and Orinoco, as well.

@@carlosdingevan801 Pero el río Negro en su curso más bajo hace de frontera entre las provincias de Buenos Aires (Carmen de Patagones) y Río Negro (Viedma)🤔 Saludos!!

Yeah I think something like 34 state water flow into it....including all the fertilizer and wastewater and crap and it all goes into the Gulf of Mexico and poisons the water.

I fell in to the middle of the Mississippi at it's source lake Itasca . The rocks were slippery from algae .that water was cold I used to joke I fell into the the middle of the Mississippi and walked to the edge .

Canada... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Dome_(Canada)

Hollow plastic balls with GPS transponders would do it.

You should do it bro can't be that hard. I believe in you

Might be kinda hard on a fish to pass through a hydro electric dam.

@@davidrowe4006 That's why they have fish ladders.

@@andyjay729 The Garrison dam and Oahe dam at Pierre have no fish ladders.

Snow Dome in Alberta is a triple divide. Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic from the same single drop! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Dome_(Canada)

That's because it crosses The Great Divide Basin in Wyoming. The Great Divide Basin (Also known as The Red Desert) is an endorheic basic, meaning water doesn't flow to any ocean from that region. When you follow the path of The Continential Divide north from Colorado, or south from Yellowstone, and you get to The Great Divide Basin, The Divide splits in two to go around it; and I-80 crosses through that region where The Continential Divide has split in two around The Great Divide Basin. Therefore, you technically cross The Divide twice while going in one direction (West, or East, but not both).

There's also a "Triple Divide Peak" in Minnesota, where rivers flow to The Great Lakes, The Mississippi River, and north to Hudson Bay. And that divide you're talking about is known as The Laurentian Divide, which branches off from The Main Continential Divide at Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park in Montana, and runs through southern Canada, and northern U.S.A, all the way to where Hudson Bay drains out to The Northern Atlantic in NE Canada.

Bingo! The triple snow dome which is about a 2-hour drive from my place! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Dome_(Canada)

It's nice Out Here. I love it, too, except for the Wildfires and smoke.

@@Diana1000Smiles this season has been nice, for smoke. Hotter than hell.

They had a Aboriginal American helping them they didn't do it on there own.

@@keyshahoodprincess9 of course they didn’t. Lewis and Clark Expedition had about thirty people in their party, I’m not going to sit here and name them all. All members contributed, and all came back alive, except one who died of natural causes.

@@johnkoziel789 I think you are missing the point. The Europeans were not randomly choosing one direction or the other when they came to each fork in a river. Some forks would be obvious but local knowledge helped guide them at others.

The Ural river isn't the same at all. The reason it flows through two different continents is because it's contiguous route is used as the border.

@@beepbop6542 maybe a poor choice of words, but an oddity nonetheless. Also an oddity because Europe is a continent in a political sense, not a in a geological one.

lake Lahotan

im offended by the name "rio negro" and in demand south america change the name NOW

@@DanRustle have fun with this one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_River_(New_York)

@@DanRustle lol

@@DanRustle My state was forced to rename one of our lakes by some group. They didn't even know that Rio Negro it was literally Spanish for "Black river", and then tried to force a farmer in court to rename a lake on his own 5,000 acre property named Black lake even though it was named after his family, the Blacks, over 200 years ago. He won.

Do you offer private tours?

😂

What brand of whiskey does he favor?

This does happen in the Eastern side of Wisconsin. Mid-Continental divide.

His house sits on a watershed divide, that's why. Most likely the front yard is in the New River Watershed, which flows to the Kanawa River into the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, and the backyard is either in the James River or the Roanoke River watersheds, where the water either flows into the Chesapeake Bay or the North Carolina Sounds before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. Also, another cool thing is that the Calfpasture River, a stream that flows into the Maury River into the James River, has a source extremely close to the watershed divide, and on the other side of the divide lays the source of the North River, which flows into the South Fork of the Shenandoah River into the Potomac River. Most roads are built on watershed divides as the water on top of the divides evaporate the fastest, which reduces hydroplaning, where cars produce huge splashes of water when their tires go through the puddles. Finally, lots of cities in Virginia are on watershed divides, and Blacksburg is one example.

That situation still exists in Chicago, where we have engineered the Chicago Rive to flow uphill to reach the Mississippi so that any pollution into that river wouldn't go into Lake Michigan but down towards St Louis.

That would be an endorheric (I think that's how you spell it, but I could be wrong) basin, where water doesn't flow to any ocean. In The U.S.A, there's 2 such basins. The Great Divide Basin/Red Desert in SW Wyoming, and The Great Basin in parts of Utah, and Nevada. There's also The Lake Chad Basin in Africa; The Jordan/Dead Sea Basin in Israel, Syria, and Jordan; The Caspian Sea Basin in Central Asia, and many more Endorheric basins throughout Central Asia.

This is hardly drivable

@@ghosthermes Yes, I get that. I was speaking in general terms. Which is why I wrote "as much as humanly possible." Obviously, I don't intend to drive through the woods, or on the banks of the river itself. I would have hoped that kind of thing would have gone unsaid just fine.

A few of us used to joke that a toilet could sit on the Continental Divide having a flushing handle that gave the user a choice as to which direction the water would go.

we found that in 1980 on Holiday

@@bobjacobson858 And make those four choices if the toilet has a 1-drop and a 3-drop button for environmental reasons.

Haha 😆

And in Alberta? A triple divide! Pacific, ARCTIC and Atlantic in one go... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Dome_(Canada)

The more-than-half a million people that actually live in Wyoming: ARE WE A JOKE TO YOU??? The majority of Yellowstone National Park is in Wyoming, Grand Teton National Park is in Wyoming, Old Faithful is in Wyoming; WHAT IS WITH THIS "WYOMING DOESN'T EXIST" BS?!?!? Edit: The fact that some people don't know about Wyoming's very existence speaks volumes on just how IGNORANT people really are about Geography! 🤬🤬🤬

@@gehrigstory6674 Same thing of people not putting Antarctica on a world map: Even if there are barely any people on a piece of land in the world, doesn't mean it doesn't exist!

Well, that fish surely must be salmon, which probably is the only well-known fish that can survive both freshwater and saltwater environments, as they have a migration pattern that they use throughout their life cycle.

did you see any Grizzly Bears?

Agreed and then some!!!