Horn River formed along the middle course of the Horn River, and is followed downstream by the "Second Lake". The river turns south-west, where the "Mink Lake" is formed along its course. The Laferte River also flows into the Mink Lake. Horn River then flows south, and it receives the waters of the Bluefish River before it empties into the Mackenzie River, downstream from the Great Slave Lake), immediately upstream from Mills Lake, at an elevation of . The arch made by the river defines the "Horn Plateau", a flat elevated area that rises up to ) to the north and east,
Bear River (Great Salt Lake) passing through Evanston then weaving along the Utah-Wyoming state line as it flows north. It turns northwest into Bear Lake County, Idaho and flows through the Bear Lake Valley in Idaho, past Montpelier where it receives the short Bear Lake Outlet Canal that drains Bear Lake, which straddles the Idaho-Utah border. At Soda Springs, near the north end of the Wasatch Range, the Bear River turns abruptly south, flowing past Preston in the broad Cache Valley that extends north from Logan, Utah. It re-enters northern Utah, meandering south past Cornish and Newton. It is impounded to form the Cutler Reservoir,