10 mi. SW of Pinnell Mtn. and 62 mi. SW of Circle, along the Steese Highway, Yukon-Tanana High.
This pass is on the divide between the Tanana and Yukon River drainage areas. It was named early by prospectors because of its distance from a group of mining claims on Birch Creek (Henning, 1965, p. 206). The name was published in 1952 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
American Creek, Bachelor Creek, Boulder Creek, Costa Fork, Crooked Creek, Idaho Creek, King Creek, McKinley Creek, Montana Creek, Reed Creek, Rosebud Creek, South Fork Twelvemile Creek,