Little Dry Creek is a short tributary of the South Platte River, approximately 10 miles (16 km) long,[2] in Arapahoe County, Colorado in the United States.

It rises in Centennial, Arapahoe County, west of I-25, and flows generally northwest into Englewood.

The creek flows into South Platte just south of West Dartmouth Avenue approximately two tenths of a mile west of its intersection with Santa Fe Drive which is US 85.

The mouth of the creek is noted as the location of the first significant gold discovery in present-day Colorado.

In the first week of July 1858, Green Russell and his brothers discovered a placer gold deposit that yielded about 20 troy ounces (620 g) of gold, then worth about 380 dollars (about $44,000 USD today.