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The Black Butte River is located in the Mendocino National Forest of northern California in Glenn and Mendocino counties. It is a tributary to the Middle Fork Eel River and flows northward for 24miles from its headwaters near Round Mountain to the confluence with the Middle Fork Eel River. The Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act of 2006 added 21miles of the Black Butte River (and a tributary Cold Creek) to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, of which 17.5miles are Wild status and 3.5miles are Scenic.[1]
Whitewater rafting and fishing are popular on the river and forest service campgrounds are nearby at Plaskett Lakes.
West of Plaskett Lakes is Black Butte with an elevation of 7455feet.