From the western end of the lake, the stream flows west-southwest for more than a mile in a valley alongside Pennsylvania Route 690.
It eventually passes a few ponds or lakes and turns west for several tenths of a mile, entering Moscow.
[4] In the early 1900s, the Lackawanna County Commissioners received permission to construct a bridge over the creek on Nork Road.
[1] A concrete slab bridge carrying Pennsylvania Route 690 was constructed across Bear Brook in 1933.
[7] Wild trout naturally reproduce in Bear Brook from its upper reaches downstream to its mouth.