# Days River

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The '''Days River''' is a {{convert|30.1|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}<ref name=NHD>U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329155652/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |date=2012-03-29 }}, accessed December 19, 2011</ref> [river](/source/river) on the [Upper Peninsula](/source/Upper_Peninsula_of_Michigan) of the [U.S. state](/source/U.S._state) of [Michigan](/source/Michigan).

It is a narrow, rocky, and scenic river that supports [brook](/source/brook_trout), [steelhead](/source/steelhead_trout) and [rainbow trout](/source/rainbow_trout), [smelt](/source/smelt_(fish)), and [white](/source/white_suckers) and [longnose sucker](/source/longnose_sucker)s in the spring.  The river runs south to its mouth on [Little Bay De Noc](/source/Little_Bay_De_Noc) on [Lake Michigan](/source/Lake_Michigan) at {{coord|45|53|37|N|86|59|5|W |region:US-MI_type:waterbody |display=inline,title|name=Days River mouth}}, near [Masonville Township](/source/Masonville_Township%2C_Michigan). There is a low-head dam by Gladstone Golf Course installed in 1978 to prevent upstream migration of invasive [sea lamprey](/source/sea_lamprey).

Days River was named for John Day, a trapper and pioneer settler.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA46|year=1908|page=46}}</ref>

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== External links ==
*[http://www.topoquest.com/map.asp?lat=45.89463&lon=-86.97911&datum=nad27&u=7&layer=DRG&s=50 TopoQuest topographic map]

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Category:Rivers of Michigan
Category:Rivers of Delta County, Michigan
Category:Tributaries of Lake Michigan

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