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Birch Creek is a 150 mile (241 km) tributary of the Yukon River in the U. S. state of Alaska.

The first human inhabitants of the region were probably Gwich'in people who hunted and fished along the creek. Old mining and trapping cabins are part of the Birch Creek landscape, and mining continues in the 21st century.

Upper Mouth Birch Creek flows 35 mile (56 km) northwest from Birch Creek to enter the Yukon River 25 mile (40 km) southwest (downstream) of Fort Yukon. The coordinates of the mouth of the Upper Mouth are
Lower Mouth Birch Creek flows 50 mile (80 km) southwest from Birch Creek to enter Lower Birch Creek Slough 39 mile (63 km) southwest of Fort Yukon. An anabranch of the Yukon River, the slough flows southwest roughly parallel to the main stem for 15 mile (24 km).

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oversees 126 mile (203 km) of Birch Creek declared "wild" in 1980 as part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. People floating the stream in canoes, kayaks, or rafts can put in at a BLM wayside and take out at another BLM wayside 110 mile (177 km) further downstream. Both are along the Steese Highway. Between these two points, the creek is rated mostly Class I on the International Scale of River Difficulty, but some segments are rated Class II (medium) or III (difficult). Sports fishing for northern pike and Arctic grayling along Birch Creek can be "outstanding", according to Alaska Fishing. The larger pike frequent the lower reaches of the creek as well as sloughs, ponds, and oxbow lakes in the Yukon Flats. Grayling prefer the headwaters. The stream corridor has no developed camping sites. Gravel bars in the creek are sometimes used for camping. Other winter activities along the stream include dog mushing, trapping, and cross country skiing.