An oblique aerial view of Brush Creek looking west from the east end of the Country Club Plaza, as it looked in 1993. Photo courtesy of Robert Dimmitt, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The purpose of this self guided virtual field trip is to provide you with a visual overview of Brush Creek and its watershed. To take the trip, simply click on the icons on the map below. We recommend that you start the trip at the upstream end of Brush Creek, which is marked with a rectangular white-blue-black icon (an icon of a slide) labeled with the number "1", and proceed downstream from there. As you work your way down the stream, be sure to click on both the slide icons and the push-pin icons -- the slide icons mark general interest photo sites, whereas the push pins mark the locations of the six water quality monitoring sites of the Brush Creek Stream Team. After you have finished the trip down Brush Creek, take a quick trip around its watershed by clicking on the "i" icons, which will show you some photos that help illustrate the watershed's general character. Finally, once you've finished touring around the Brush Creek watershed, head downstream along the Blue River (the river that Brush Creek flows in to) to see what conditions are like along the lower part of that river. To see the lower Blue, click on the factory icons.