LeTort Spring Run

{{Short description|River tributary in Pennsylvania, U.S.}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} '''The LeTort Spring Run''' is a {{convert|9.4|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 August 8, 2011</ref> [[tributary]] of [[Conodoguinet Creek]] in [[Cumberland County, Pennsylvania|Cumberland County]], [[Pennsylvania]] in the [[United States]].

Located near [[Carlisle, Pennsylvania|Carlisle]], its length between [[Pennsylvania Route 34]] and Conodoguinet Creek is a designated [[Pennsylvania Scenic Rivers|Pennsylvania Scenic River]].<ref name="DCNR">{{cite web |title=Scenic Rivers |url=https://www.dcnr.pa.gov/Conservation/Water/RiversConservation/ScenicRivers/Pages/default.aspx |publisher=Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources |access-date=June 5, 2020}}</ref> It is a well-known [[fly fishing]] stream where anglers fish for [[brown trout]], and is the namesake for the famous grashopper-imitating fly pattern, the LeTort Hopper<ref>{{Cite web |title=Advanced Fly Tying: Letort Hopper |url=https://www.potomacvalleyflyfishers.club/blog/2024/09/advanced-fly-tying-letort-hopper |access-date=2026-04-29 |website=Potomac Valley Fly Fishers |language=en-US}}</ref>.<ref name="Allen2019">{{cite journal |last1=Allen |first1=John |title=LeTort Spring Run |journal=Pennsylvania Angler & Boater |issue=March/April 2019 |pages=12–13 |url=https://www.fishandboat.com/Transact/AnglerBoater/AnglerBoater2019/Documents/2019-0304ma05-letort.pdf |access-date=June 5, 2020}}</ref> Located along its banks are LeTort Park, owned by the Borough of Carlisle, and the [[LeTort Spring Run Nature Trail]].

It is named for the French-Canadian fur trader [[James Le Tort]], who built a cabin in the area about 1720.<ref name="Allen2019"/><ref name = "Carlisle">[https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.charterordinance00carl/?st=pdf&pdfPage=18 ''Charter and ordinances of the borough of Carlisle,'' Carlisle, printed at ''the Herald'' office, 1841]</ref>{{rp|10}}

==See also== *[[List of rivers of Pennsylvania]]

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==External links== *[https://archive.today/20141205201220/http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/brc/conservation/rivers/scenicrivers/letortspringrun/index.htm Pennsylvania Scenic Rivers website] {{Protected areas of Pennsylvania}}

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[[Category:Rivers of Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Tributaries of the Susquehanna River]] [[Category:Rivers of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Scenic Rivers of Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Protected areas of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania]]