Swiftcurrent Creek is a

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of British Columbia. It is a tributary of the

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, entering the Fraser about below the mouth of the

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Swiftcurrent Creek originates at the toe of the

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and flows about southwest. During that time it flows through two small glacier lakes. At the outlet of the second lake the creek, quite large already, plunges down a headwall into the valley below, forming unofficially-named Swiftcurrent Falls, one of the higher

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. The creek continues southwest for another . The creek then turns southeast for about until its confluence with the Fraser. There is about a long stretch just after the creek turns southeast where the creek bed is wide and the creek runs through the middle. Bordering the creek on both sides are some

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-like sections that some of the flow from the creek enters before re-entering the mainstream further downstream. The

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crosses the creek about above its mouth. The creek is not entirely within Mount Robson Park; shortly above the bridge over the creek on the Yellowhead Highway the creek leaves the boundaries of the park.

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{{authority control Rivers of British Columbia Tributaries of the Fraser River Robson Valley Rivers of the Canadian Rockies

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