The Innoko River is a river in western Alaska. It flows north from its origin south of Cloudy Mountain in the Kuskokwim Mountains and then flows southwest to its end at the Yukon River, across from Holy Cross, Alaska.
The river is about 500 miles (805 km) long. Most of its upper portion flows through the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge.
Innoko is a Deg Hit’an name for the river. The Russian colonial administrators also called the river Shiltonotno, Legon or Tlegon, Chagelyuk or Shageluk and Ittege at various times.
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“Every incident connected with the breaking up of the rivers and ponds and the settling of the weather is particularly interesting to us who live in a climate of so great extremes. When the warmer days come, they who dwell near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a few days see it rapidly going out. So the alligator comes out of the mud with quakings of the earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)