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Red Rock Canyon State Park: The opening archaeological scenes of “Jurassic Park” and countless Westerns were filmed in the more than 27,000 acres of Red Rock Canyon, something of a miniature Grand Canyon featuring some of the...

Los Padres National Forest: This national forest stretches 220 miles from the Carmel Valley to the mountains near Frazier Park. In the Mount Pinos Ranger District, southwest of Bakersfield from Frazier Park to Highway 33, there are...

Audubon California's Kern River Preserve: Off Highway 178 in Weldon in the Kern River Valley. Offers an easy, flat-terrain walking trail through restored riverside habitat that features an abundance of birds, plants, butterflies and...

From the slopes of Mount Whitney in eastern Tulare County, through Kernville to Lake Isabella and down the Kern River Canyon, past Lake Ming to Buena Vista Lake, the Kern River offers water enthusiasts a variety of watersports from...