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It rises in extreme north Texas, just a few miles south of the ) The Trinity River was named after the while the Clear Fork flows northeastward through Fort Worth; the two forks meet near downtown. The Elm Fork flows south from near Gainesville, Texas and east of the city of Denton . Those two rivers merge as they enter the city of Dallas and form the Trinity River proper. The East Fork begins near McKinney, Texas and joins the Trinity River just southeast of Dallas. The Trinity then flows southeastward from Dallas across the farming regions and pine forests of eastern Texas. It flows into the Trinity Bay , an arm of Galveston Bay , an inlet of the Gulf Of Mexico , east of the city of Houston . Plans for a shipping channel along the length of the Trinity River were scrapped, as they would have required extensive dredging to make the river navigable, though several overpasses were built at very high clearances in anticipation of the channel being built. There are, however, current plans being developed to turn the Trinity River flood zone in ). SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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