Salmon River Corridor The Salmon River Corridor/Watershed is
located in northern New York midway between the cities of
Watertown and Syracuse. The area drains approximately 280 square
miles of forested, agricultural and rural residential lands on
the western slopes of the Tug Hill Plateau, in Oswego, Lewis,
Jefferson (and a small area of Oneida) counties and discharges
into eastern Lake Ontario. The watershed is extensively forested
and supports world-class salmon and trout fisheries. It is the
largest of New York's cold water tributaries to Lake Ontario.
Salmon River and Tributaries The Salmon River system is one of
several that form the radial stream drainages of the Tug Hill
Plateau, a landform that slopes gently upward and eastward from
the Ontario Lake Plain to an elevation of 2100 feet in the east-
central portion of the region. Elevations of the Salmon River
watershed range from 1900 feet at the upper headwaters to 250
feet at the Salmon River mouth on eastern Lake Ontario. The
greater Tug Hill, in whic