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The Mobile River is located in southern Alabama in the United States. Formed out of the confluence of the Tombigbee River and Alabama River rivers, the approximately river drains an area of of Alabama, with a Drainage basin extending into Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Its drainage basin is the fourth-largest of primary stream drainage basins entirely in the United States. The river has historically provided the principal navigational access for Alabama. Since construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, it also provides an alternative route into the Ohio River watershed.
The Tombigbee and Alabama River join to form the Mobile River approximately northeast of Mobile, along the county line between Mobile and Baldwin counties. The combined stream flows south, in a winding course. Approximately downstream from the confluence, the channel of the river divides, with the Mobile flowing along the western channel. The Tensaw River, a bayou of the Mobile River, flows alongside to the east, separated from as they flow southward. The Mobile River flows through the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta and reaches Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico just east of downtown Mobile.
The James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant, owned by Alabama Power, has a leaking unlined fly ash pit located "on land that lies within a hairpin crook of the Mobile River." For this reason the river has been described as the third most endangered river in the United States.
| George Wallace Tunnel | Interstate 10 | Mobile | |
| Bankhead Tunnel | U.S. Route 98 | ||
| Cochrane–Africatown USA Bridge | U.S. Route 90 U.S. Route 98 | ||
| 14-Mile Bridge | CSX Transportation | ||
| General W.K. Wilson Jr. Bridge | Interstate 65 |
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