Ward Creek is a 6.1-mile (9.8 km) eastward-flowing stream in Placer County, California, United States.

[1] In the early 1980s the McClatchy family donated lands on the south side of the creek to California State Parks.

The creek was a major source of sediment related to erosion from subdivisions and logging roads in the watershed.

From 2006 to 2013 Ward Creek Park was restored by California State Parks, the California Tahoe Conservancy and other partners to reduce erosion which deposites sediment in Lake Tahoe, removal of fire-prone crowded trees and removal of a diversion dam.

[9] Beaver dams on Ward Creek reduce sediment and nutrient (such as phosphorus) loads that would otherwise flow to Lake Tahoe.