Brandywine Creek, also formerly known as the Long John River after a local prospector and trapper, is a tributary of the

Cheakamus River The Cheakamus River (pron. CHEEK-a-mus) is a tributary of the Squamish River, beginning on the west slopes of Outlier Peak in Garibaldi Provincial Park upstream from Cheakamus Lake on the southeastern outskirts of the resort area of Whistler. T ...

in the

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of the

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, entering that stream via Daisy Lake, just below Brandywine Falls. The creek is about 14 km in length and originates on the south slope of

Brandywine Mountain Brandywine Mountain, , is a summit in the Powder Mountain Icefield of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains of southwestern British Columbia, Canada, about west of the resort town of Whistler, British Columbia, Whistler. Its name is derived ...

in Brandywine Meadows, at the southern end of the

Powder Mountain Icefield The Powder Mountain Icefield, also called the Powder Mountain Icecap and the Cayley Icefield, is a glacial field in the Pacific Ranges of southwestern British Columbia, Canada, about west of Whistler and about north of Vancouver. On the west sid ...

and is the next basin immediately southwest of that of the

Callaghan Valley The Callaghan Valley is located in the Sea to Sky Country of southwestern, British Columbia, in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains 90 km north of Vancouver. It was the home of the 2010 Winter Olympics's Whistler Olympic Park, the venu ...

, the site of the Nordic events facility for the 2010 Olympics. The creek's valley has been partially logged. An unnamed hot spring lies in its upper reaches, near

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Name

The creek's name is derived from that of Brandywine Falls, which earned its name in the course of a wager over its height in which the wagers were a bottle of brandy and a bottle of wine.

References

BCGNIS listing "Brandywine Creek"Study of Callaghan Lake Provincial Park
(mentions hot spring) Sea-to-Sky Corridor Hot springs of British Columbia Rivers of the Pacific Ranges New Westminster Land District {{BritishColumbiaCoast-river-stub

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