Coal River may refer to:
- Rivers
- Coal River (Canada), in Yukon and British Columbia
- Coal River, New Zealand, in Fiordland
- Coal River (West Virginia), in the United States
- Coal River (Tasmania), in Australia
- Other
- Coal River (book), a 2008 nonfiction book about mountaintop removal mining in the United States
- Coal River was the early name for the Australian settlement which became Newcastle, New South Wales
Famous quotes containing the words coal and/or river:
“Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)