After several tenths of a mile, the creek enters the borough of Laurel Run and begins flowing through a valley.

The creek continues west for more than a mile, receiving two unnamed tributaries from the left and one more from the right.

The concentration of dissolved oxygen in the creek is between 10 and 13 milligrams per liter, depending on the site.

[1] The creek's mouth is in the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Wilkes-Barre West.

[1] Pine Creek was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on August 2, 1979.

[8] However, the creek has had low densities of trout in the past, but more recently, their numbers have increased.

[1] Pine Creek could potentially be upgraded to Class A Wild Trout Waters.

[9] Wild trout naturally reproduce in the creek from its headwaters downstream to its mouth.

Of the macroinvertebrate taxa in the creek, between 60 and 83 percent are of the orders Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera.