Information About

Bird Creek

Quick Facts

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Location

60 ° 58' 25" N,
149 ° 27' 56.999" W

Region

Anchorage

Nearest City

Girdwood

Elevation

79 ft (24.08 m)

Fatalities

1

Bird Creek in Detail.

About

heads in SE end of Chugach Mts., flows SW to Turnagain Arm, 5.5 mi. NW of Sunrise, Chugach Mts.

History

Name used by local miners; reported by Mendenhall (1900a, p. 320), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Fatalities

On January 1, 1952, 1 person died while . Read More

Bird Creek Gallery

Pictures of, from, or near Bird Creek.

Places Near Bird Creek
Cities:

The Wing,

Capes:

Bird Point, Snipers Point, Windy Point,

Streams:

Middle Fork Campbell Creek,

Glaciers:

Bird Glacier, Flute Glacier, Glacier G210678E61146N, Glacier G210726E60839N,

Routes:

Baby Candyland, Black Lake Falls, Candyland, Even Hookers Get the Blues, Flame Out, O’Malley Falls, Organ Pipes, Ptarmigan Pillar, Ski Tracks, Water World,

Islands:

Halfway Island,

Lakes:

Eagle Lake, Hidden Lake, Long Lake, Rabbit Lake, Ship Lake, Symphony Lake, Tanaina Lake, Williwan Lakes,

Locales:

Ball Field, Bidarka, Bird, Black Lake Chute, Binge Bowl, KCK, North Wedgie, O'Malley Gully, South Wedgie, Symphony Tarns, Thin White Line, Tiki Cruiser, Windboard Love, Wolverine Chutes,

Mine:

Bruhn-Ray Mine, Connoly Mine, Downing Mine, Hirshey Mine, Nearhouse Mine, Pearson Mine, Robinson-Bowman Mine, Sunshine Lakes, Swetmann Mine,

Mountains:

Mount Alpenglow, Avalanche Mountain, Bidarka Peak, Bird Peak, Blueberry Knoll, Bradley Peak, Calliope Mountain, Cantata Peak, Eagle Peak, Flattop Mountain, Hurdygurdy Mountain, Indianhouse Mountain, McHugh Peak, Near Point, O-Malley Peak, Ptarmigan Peak, Rainbow Peak, The Ramp, South Yuyanq’ Ch’ex, Tanaina Peak, Temptation Peak, The Wedge, Mount Williwaw, Wolverine Peak,

Parks:

Chugach State Park,

Mountain Passes:

Bird Creek Pass, Indian Creek Pass, Powerline Pass, Sail Feather Pass, South Ship Lake Pass, West Ship Lake Pass,

Peaks:

Peak 3, Adelie Point, Birds Eye Peak, Elliot, Falls Peak, False Peak, Flaketop Peak, Hidden Peak, Homicide Peak, Hope Mountain, Kanchee Peak, Knoya Peak, Koktoya Peak, Little O'Malley, Nest Peak, North Avalanche Mountain, North Yuyanq’ Ch’ex, Peak Two, Penguin Peak, Shaman Dome, South Avalanche Mountain, South Powerline Peak, Tail Feather Peak, The Dome, The Sail, Tikishla Peak, West Kinglet Peak,

Ridges:

Bird Ridge, Seattle Creek Headwall,

Streams:

Alder Creek, Bay Creek, Bear Creek, Beaver Creek, Bedrock Creek, Bird Creek, Black Creek, Bonanza Creek, Canyon Creek, Caribou Creek, Clinton Creek, Coeur d-Alene Creek, Cripple Creek, Cub Creek, Donaldson Creek, East Fork Sixmile Creek, Falls Creek, Falls Creek, Gulch Creek, Highland Creek, Indian Creek, Island Creek, Nelson Creek, North Fork Ship Creek, Old Woman Creek, Palmer Creek, Pass Creek, Penguin Creek, Porcupine Creek, Rainbow Creek, Resurrection Creek, Rimrock Creek, Sixmile Creek, Sunrise Creek, Sunset Creek, Walker Creek, Wildhorse Creek, Willow Creek, Wolf Creek,

Routes:

Avalanche Peak, Ballpark Trail, Bird Creek Trail, Bird Point Interpretive Trail, Bird Ridge Interpretive Trail, Bird Ridge Trail, Bird Valley Trail, Falls Creek Trail, Flattop Mountain Alternate Trail, Flattop Mountain Trail, Gasline Trail, Hidden Lake Trail, Indian Creek Pass Trail, Little Omalley Trail, Long Lake Trail, McHugh Lake Trail, Middle Fork Loop Trail, Near Point Trail, North Fork Trail, Penguin Creek Trail, Penguin Peak Trail, Powerline Trail, Ptarmigan Pass Trail, Rabbit Lake Trail, Ramp Trail, Ship Lake Pass Trail, Turnagain Arm Trail, Williwaw Lakes Trail, Wolverine Peak Trail,

Valleys:

Gold Gulch,

Cities:

Hope, Indian, Sunrise,