Lackawaxen River

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox river

| name = Lackawaxen River

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| image = Lackawaxen River.jpg

| image_size = 300px

| image_caption = The Lackawaxen River several miles above its confluence with the Delaware River

| map = lackariversmap.png

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| map_caption = Map of Lackawaxen and Lackawanna watersheds

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| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = United States

| subdivision_type2 = State

| subdivision_name2 = Pennsylvania

| subdivision_type3 = Region

| subdivision_name3 = Poconos

| subdivision_type4 = Counties

| subdivision_name4 = Wayne, Pike

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| length = {{convert|31|mi|km|abbr=on}}

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| discharge1_location= Rowland

| discharge1_min = {{convert|53|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}

| discharge1_avg = {{convert|1318|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}

| discharge1_max = {{convert|13208|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}

| discharge2_location= Honesdale

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| discharge2_avg = {{convert|394|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}

| discharge2_max = {{convert|34000|cuft/s|m3/s|abbr=on}}

| source1 = West Branch Lackawaxen River

| source1_location = Confluence above Belmont Lake, in Orson and Poyntelle

| source1_coordinates= {{coord|41|47|31|N|75|25|54|W|display=inline}}

| source1_elevation = {{convert|1840|ft|abbr=on}}

| source2 = Johnson Creek

| source2_location = Mt. Pleasant Twp.

| source2_coordinates= {{coord|41|44|45|N|75|23|1|W|display=inline}}

| source2_elevation = {{convert|1480|ft|abbr=on}}

| source_confluence = E of PA 170

| source_confluence_location = Creamtown

| source_confluence_coordinates= {{coord|41|40|40|N|75|22|44|W|display=inline}}

| source_confluence_elevation = {{convert|1250|ft|abbr=on}}

| mouth = Delaware River

| mouth_location = Lackawaxen

| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|41|29|13|N|74|59|14|W|display=inline,title}}

| mouth_elevation = {{convert|580|ft|abbr=on}}

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| basin_size = {{convert|598|sqmi|abbr=on}}

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| tributaries_right = Wallenpaupack Creek

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| extra = Discharge figures from {{cite web|title=Water data for Lackawaxen River at Howland, 2008|url=http://wdr.water.usgs.gov/wy2008/pdfs/01432110.2008.pdf|publisher=United States Geological Survey|accessdate=November 20, 2009}} and

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The Lackawaxen River is a {{convert|31.3|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}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 April 1, 2011 tributary of the Delaware River in northeastern Pennsylvania in the United States. The river flows through a largely rural area in the northern Pocono Mountains, draining an area of approximately {{convert|598|sqmi}}.

Its source is in the borough of Prompton in western Wayne County, at the confluence of the West Branch and Van Auken Creek. It flows past Honesdale and Hawley, where it is joined from the southwest by Wallenpaupack Creek and by Middle Creek. Water discharged from the Lake Wallenpaupack hydroelectric facility enters the river downstream from Hawley. The river continues east and joins the Delaware at Lackawaxen. East of Honesdale, it was deepened as part of the Delaware and Hudson Canal project.

The river is a popular destination for canoeing and recreational fly fishing for trout. It was reportedly where the American author Zane Grey first learned to fly fish.[http://www.lackawaxenriver.org/ Lackawaxen River Conservatory Website]

Lackawaxen is Lenape for "swift waters".