Big Bushkill Creek

For other streams with similar names, see Bushkill (disambiguation).

Big Bushkill Creek (Bush Kill on federal maps^[1]) is a 30.1-mile-long (48.4 km)^[2] tributary of the Delaware River in the Poconos of eastern Pennsylvania in the United States.

It originates from Pecks Pond in Pike County. It flows south, entering Pickerel Lake and then into Beaver Run Pond. Most of the stream travels through Delaware State Forest before entering Monroe County. It is a prominent feature of Resica Falls Scout Reservation.

Bush Kill joins the Delaware River at the village of Bushkill.

Contents

1 Tributaries
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Tributaries

Little Bush Kill
Sand Hill Creek
Saw Creek
Spring Run
Pennel Run
Dancing Ridge Run
Utt Run
High Swamp Run
Sixteen Mile Run
Brights Creek
Beaver Run
Middle Branch Bush Kill
There are at least five unnamed tributaries to the Bush Kill

See also

List of Pennsylvania rivers

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bush Kill
^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011

Gertler, Edward. Keystone Canoeing, Seneca Press, 2004. ISBN 0-9749692-0-6
USGS 7.5' Quadrangles: Peck's Pond (1997), Twelve Mile Pond (1997), Skytop (1997), Bushkill (1993) & Flatbrookville (1997), United States Geological Survey, Scale- 1:24,000

External links

U.S. Geological Survey: PA stream gaging stations