The East Branch rises in the White Mountain National Forest on the north slopes of a high ridge connecting Miles Notch and Farwell Mountain. The stream flows northeast, then north, into the town limits of Bethel, where it joins the West Branch to form the Pleasant River.
^U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National MapArchived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 30, 2011
