flows N to Utukok River, W of Lookout Ridge, 95 mi. S of Wainwright, Arctic Slope. 25 miles long.
Named by W. T. Foran, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in 1924, for his disappointment "when it was discovered that the creek did not head in a pass through the DeLong Mts." (in Chapman and Sable, 1960, p. 53).