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Big Creek (Big Creek Flats in the 1870s; Manzanita Park in 1902; until 1926, Cascada) is a small census-designated place in Fresno County, California, located in the Sierra Nevada on the north bank of Big Creek. It lies at an elevation of 4,984 feet (1,519 m) above sea level. Its population is 175. The ZIP code is 93605, and the community is inside area code 559.

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Other than the private helipad owned by Southern California Edison, the only way in or out of the town is Big Creek Road, off of California State Route 168 Route 168. The dam has a walkway across it to the south bank, but access is limited to employees of SCE and those residents who have been given a key. Though Big Creek's only school is an elementary, it teaches kindergarten through 8th grade. There is camping and water recreation in the summer and skiing skiing in the winter. Huntington Lake is to the northeast and Shaver Lake is to the south.