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Youghiogheny River
The
Youghiogheny River
, or the
Yough
for short, is a
tributary
of the
Monongahela River
in the
U.S. states
of
West Virginia
,
Maryland
, and
Pennsylvania
. It drains an area on the west side of the
Allegheny Mountains
northward into Pennsylvania, providing a small watershed in extreme western Maryland into the
tributaries
of the
Mississippi River
. Youghiogheny is an
Algonquin
word meaning "a stream flowing in a contrary direction".
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