The
Aspetuck River is a river in the U.S. state of
Connecticut. The river rises in the hills located in Huntington State Park in
Bethel, with a watershed of approximately . The river flows generally southerly through
Redding, Connecticut to the
Aspetuck Reservoir, the Hemlock Reservoir in
Easton and
Fairfield and finally into the
Saugatuck River in Westport, Connecticut and then into the Long Island Sound. It flows through the village of
Aspetuck at an average depth of . The word Aspetuck can be translated as "river originating at the high place" in an
Algonquian language.