Schoharie

River in east-central New York, USA; length 137 km/85 mi. It rises in the Catskill Mountains, is impounded by Gilboa Dam to form Schoharie Reservoir, and flows into the Mohawk River at Fort Hunter, west of Amsterdam.

Course After rising on the northeastern slopes of the Catskills the river flows northwest to Prattsville, where it enters the Schoharie Reservoir. The reservoir provides water to the New York City area through the Shandaken Tunnel to Esopus Creek, which in turn feeds into the Ashokan Reservoir. The river then passes through Middleburgh to Schoharie, where it receives Cobleskill Creek from the west. From Schoharie it flows northeast and north to the Mohawk.