Breitenbush River north of Detroit The Breitenbush River is a tributary of the North Santiam River, approximately 20 mi (32 km) long, in western Oregon in the United States. It drains a rugged, forested area of the Cascade Range east of Salem.
It rises in two short forks in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness in the high Cascades of eastern Marion County. The forks flow east, joining near the small community of Breitenbush. The combined stream flows generally WSW through the Willamette National Forest. It joins the North Santiam at Detroit. Formerly the lower 2 mi (3.2 km) of the river formed an arm of Detroit Lake, formed by the Detroit Dam on the North Santiam. The recent lowering of the reservoir has exposed the original bed of the river, such that it largely flow in its natural course.
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