Big Creek, British Columbia

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Big Creek is a roughly 120 kilometre-long tributary of British Columbia's Chilcotin River.

Its source is in the midst of an area known as the South Chilcotin, near the vertex of the boundaries of Big Creek Provincial Park, the valley of the Taseko River and Taseko Lakes, and the Southern Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park. Near its head are Lorna Lake, renowned for its alpine setting, and a location known as Graveyard Valley, believed to be the site of the final battle of a 19th Century war between the Tsilhqot'in and St'at'imc peoples over control of the upper basin of the Bridge River, which lies over the mountains to the south of Big Creek.

Only the uppermost reaches of Big Creek are in mountain country, however. About 30km from its source the creek emerges onto the Chilcotin Plateau, which lines the lea of the Coast Mountains, and for most of its length it meanders across a mix of rangeland and subalpine forest and swamp.