Beaver Creek (Kenai, Alaska)

Beaver Creek is a stream located on the western portion of the Kenai Peninsula. Beaver Creek flows approximately 10 miles from its source at Beaver Lake in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge to the Kenai River approximately 4 river miles from the mouth of that river in the City of Kenai at Cook Inlet. Beaver Creek was the common name added to the USGS Geographic Names Information System in 1951.^[1]

Recreation

Beaver Creek shares the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge with the Swanson River which has a well known canoe system. Approximately 16,000 years ago the Swanson River flowed south through what is now Beaver Creek.^[2]

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