It ends at the Chesapeake Bay in a very wide mouth between Blackwalnut Point on Tilghman Island, and Cook Point, near Hudson, Maryland.

Tidy Island Creek and Culbreth Marsh Ditch rise in western Kent County, Delaware.

The bridge at Cambridge limits traffic to 50 feet vertical clearance.

The river’s mouth is marked in the main channel by an abandoned, tilting masonry lighthouse on the underwater Sharps’ Island.

Knapp’s Narrows offers a shortcut to boats approaching from the north.