Athabasca River is marked by rapids, impeding navigation southwest of Fort McMurray. The Athabasca River travels before draining into the Peace-Athabasca Delta near Lake Athabasca south of Fort Chipewyan. From there, its waters flow north as Rivière des Rochers, then joining the Peace River to form the Slave River that empties into Great Slave Lake and discharges through the Mackenzie River system into the Arctic Ocean. The cumulative drainage area is . Numerous communities are located on the banks of the Athabasca River, including Jasper, Brule, Entrance, Hinton, Whitecourt, Fort Assiniboine, Smith, Athabasca, Fort McMurray, and Fort McKay. An independent study has
Rapid River (Cree River tributary) flow via the Cree River, the Fond du Lac River and the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean. Rapid River (Cree River tributary) The Rapid River is a river in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is part of the Mackenzie River drainage basin. The Rapid River begins at an unnamed lake at an elevation of . It travels north to Kirsch Lake at an elevation of , where it takes in several unnamed tributaries, including one from the left arriving from Halliday Lake. The river continues to Parker Lake at an elevation of where it takes in the left tributary Arnold