Moonbeam Creek | |
Pushpin Map: | Canada British Columbia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the mouth of the creek in British Columbia |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Canada |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | British Columbia |
Subdivision Type3: | Region |
Subdivision Name3: | British Columbia Interior |
Subdivision Type4: | Regional District |
Subdivision Name4: | Thompson-Nicola |
Subdivision Type5: | Land District |
Subdivision Name5: | Kamloops Division Yale |
Source1: | unnamed slope |
Source1 Elevation: | 2460m (8,070feet)[1] |
Mouth: | North Thompson River |
Mouth Coordinates: | 52.4608°N -119.1378°W[2] |
Mouth Elevation: | 730m (2,400feet) |
River System: | Pacific Ocean drainage basin |
Moonbeam Creek is a stream in Thompson-Nicola Regional District in the Interior region of British Columbia, Canada. It is in the Pacific Ocean drainage basin and is a left tributary of the North Thompson River. The nearest communities to the mouth of the creek on British Columbia Highway 5 are Blue River south and Valemount north; the mouth of the creek is just downstream of confluence of the North Thompson River and the Albreda River, where the North Thompson River turns 90° right and heads south.
The creek begins at an unnamed slope to the southwest of the peak of Dominion Mountain, part of the Monashee Mountains. It flows west, passes under the Canadian National Railway transcontinental main line (used by freight traffic and the Via Rail Canadian train) and British Columbia Highway 5, and reaches its mouth at the North Thompson River, between the railway points of Lempriere downstream and Goswell upstream, dropping from to in elevation along the route. The North Thompson River flows via the Thompson River and the Fraser River to the Pacific Ocean.