North Canyon Creek Slaughterhouse Creek | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Nevada |
Cities | Carson City, Glenbrook |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | West flank Snow Valley Peak |
• location | Carson Range of the Sierra Nevada |
• coordinates | 39°06′01″N 119°56′49″W / 39.10028°N 119.94694°W[1] |
• elevation | 8,650 ft (2,640 m) |
Mouth | |
• location | Lake Tahoe |
• coordinates | 39°09′23″N 119°53′21″W / 39.15639°N 119.88917°W[1] |
• elevation | 6,230 ft (1,900 m)[1] |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Outflow from Spooner Lake |
• right | Secret Harbor Creek |
North Canyon Creek is a 6.8-mile-long (10.9 km)[2] southwestward-flowing stream originating on Snow Valley Peak in the Carson Range of the Sierra Nevada. Most of the stream is in Carson City, Nevada, United States. It is a tributary stream of Lake Tahoe culminating at Glenbrook in Douglas County on Tahoe's Nevada shore.