Icicle Creek
Icicle Creek is a non navigable stream in the U.S. state of Washington. It originates at Josephine Lake near the crest of the Cascade Range and flows generally east to join the Wenatchee River near Leavenworth. Icicle Creek's drainage basin is mountainous and mostly undeveloped land within the Wenatchee National Forest and the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. The final 6 miles (10 km) of the creek are moderately developed with scattered homes and pasture, a golf course, children's camp, a small housing development called Icicle Island Club, and the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery. Some water is diverted from the creek for municipal use by the City of Leavenworth at Icicle Creek river mile 5.6. Near Leavenworth, the wheelchair-accessible Icicle Creek Nature Trail, a National Recreation Trail designated in 2005, runs 1.0 mile (1.6 km) along a historic creek channel.
| Icicle Creek | |
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Rapids on Icicle Creek | |
Location of the mouth of Icicle Creek in Washington Icicle Creek (the United States) | |
| Native name | na-sik-elt (Columbia-Wenatchi), meaning narrow canyon. |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Washington |
| County | Chelan |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Cascade Range |
| • coordinates | 47°43′7″N 121°3′3″W |
| • elevation | 4,681 ft (1,427 m) |
| Mouth | Wenatchee River |
• coordinates | 47°34′48″N 120°39′57″W |
| Length | 31.8 mi (51.2 km) |
| Basin size | 212.7 sq mi (551 km2) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | river mile 5.8 |
| • average | 614 cu ft/s (17.4 m3/s) |
| • minimum | 44 cu ft/s (1.2 m3/s) |
| • maximum | 19,800 cu ft/s (560 m3/s) |
Icicle Creek's name comes from the Indian word na-sik-elt, meaning narrow canyon. According to Albert H. Sylvester, topographer and Forest Service surveyor for many years, "Place the letter n at the beginning of icicle and the letter t at its end, and you practically have the Indian word." Original patents was Northern pacific railroad patent number #32 Joseph Scott patent number #907 George Briskey patent number #516