Big Marsh Creek is a tributary of Crescent Creek in Klamath County, in the

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. The creek flows generally north from its source upstream of Big Marsh, south of Crescent Lake on the eastern side of the

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. All of Big Marsh Creek and of Crescent Creek are parts of the

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. In turn, Crescent Creek is a tributary of the

Little Deschutes River The Little Deschutes River is a tributary of the Deschutes River in the central part of the U.S. state of Oregon. It is about long, with a drainage basin of . It drains a rural area on the east side of the Cascade Range south of Bend. The Littl ...

, of which in the same general area are also part of the national system. The upper reaches of Big Marsh Creek flow through the Oregon Cascades National Recreation Area.

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