West Highland Creek
| West Highland Creek | |
| River | |
| Country | Canada |
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| Province | Ontario |
| Municipality | Toronto |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Southwest Highland Creek |
| Source | L'Amoreaux Park |
| - location | Steeles neighbourhood |
| - elevation | 185 m (607 ft) |
| - coordinates | 43°49′00″N 79°18′15″W / 43.81667°N 79.30417°W |
| Mouth | Highland Creek |
| - location | Woburn neighbourhood |
| - elevation | 99 m (325 ft) |
| - coordinates | 43°46′27″N 79°11′58″W / 43.77417°N 79.19944°WCoordinates: 43°46′27″N 79°11′58″W / 43.77417°N 79.19944°W |
  Location of the mouth of the creek in Toronto
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West Highland Creek is a river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a tributary of Highland Creek in the Lake Ontario drainage basin. The creek and its tributaries are entirely within the old City of Scarborough, and it provides the watershed for the northwest of the city.
West Highland Creek begins in L'Amoreaux Park in Steeles neighbourhood, just west of Kennedy Road and north of McNicoll Avenue, at an elevation of 185 metres (607 ft). It flows southwest, under McNicoll Avenue into L'Amoreaux neighbourhood, exits the park and passes under Birchmount Road and Finch Avenue. Just south of Finch Avenue, West Highland Creek takes in a right tributary unnamed creek. The creek then turns south and takes in another right tributary unnamed creek. It then turns southeast into Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan neighbourhood, passes again under Birchmount Road and into Tam O'Shanter Golf Club. West Highland Creek flows under Kennedy Road into Agincourt South-Malvern West neighbourhood and under Sheppard Avenue. It heads south under a grade-separated junction of a Canadian National Railway track (used by the GO Transit Stouffville line) and a Canadian Pacific Railway mainline. The creek flows south under Highway 401, loops west then back east under the Canadian National line, and turns east at the Scarborough RT line west of Midland Avenue. It passes under Midland into Bendale neighbourhood, then turns south under Ellesmere Road into Birkdale Ravine Park.
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