It originates in Riding Mountain National Park at Lake Audy and flows about 65 miles (105 km) south through the communities of Minnedosa and Rapid City.

It joins the Assiniboine River about 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Brandon.

In 1911 the Geographic Board of Canada adopted the name Minnedosa River but restored the original name in 1978.

[1] The maximum mean daily discharge near Rivers, Manitoba was 9,800 cubic feet (280 m3) per second on July 1, 2020, about 2.7 times the previous record from 1969.

This article related to a river in Manitoba, Canada is a stub.