Bear Valley Springs is both a census-designated place ( CDP ) and Community Service District in the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California, United States.

All are free to the public except for the Halloween concert held at the Beekay Theater with the local theater group, the Tehachapi Community Theater.

, a local theater group, the Tehachapi Community Theater, performs in the restored downtown BeeKay theater.

The Tehachapi Pops Orchestra, founded in 2006 by Deborah Hand, plays an eclectic blend of popular and jazz music, as well as original compositions.

Pseudotsuga macrocarpa, commonly called the bigcone Douglas-fir, is an evergreen conifer native to the mountains of southern California, occurring from the San Rafael Mountains in central Santa Barbara County and the southwest of the Tehachapi Mountains of southwestern Kern County, south to Julian in San Diego County.

The Tehachapi Mountains (), regionally also called The Tehachapis, are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California in the Western United States.

The only recorded description of an active jaguar den with breeding adults and kittens in the U. S. was in the Tehachapi Mountains of California prior to 1860.

County government was created in 1866 with the county seat in the mining town of Havilah, in the mountains between Bakersfield and Tehachapi.

The Kawaiisu people ( also Nuwu (" people " in Kawaiisu ), or Nuooah ) are the Native American tribe whose homeland was the Tehachapi Valley, and seasonally the southern Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert, for thousands of years.

It is now on the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP )— and was the oldest building in downtown Tehachapi until it burned in June 2008.

On July 21, 1952 Tehachapi was devastated by a magnitude 7. 5 ( Richter scale ) earthquake ( USGS, SCEC ) on the little known White Wolf Fault.

The racial makeup of Tehachapi was 9, 426 ( 65. 4 %) White, 1, 297 ( 9. 0 %) African American, 206 ( 1. 4 %) Native American, 238 ( 1. 7 %) Asian, 21 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 2, 725 ( 18. 9 %) from other races, and 501 ( 3. 5 %) from two or more races.

The prison held both male and female inmates until 1932 when the original California Institution for Women prison at Tehachapi was built.

The original California Institution for Women was dedicated in Tehachapi in 1932 ; however, after a 1952 earthquake, the female inmates were transferred to the just-opened CIW in Chino, and the Tehachapi facility was rebuilt as the male-only California Correctional Institution.

This original Tejon Pass, was 15 miles to the northeast of what is now Tejon Pass, in the Tehachapi Mountains, at the top of the divide between Tejon Creek Canyon in the San Joaquin Valley and Cottonwood Creek Canyon in Antelope Valley.

The Tehachapi Loop was originally built and owned by Southern Pacific Railroad, with construction starting in 1874, and the first train to use it reaching Los Angeles in 1876.

The Auto Club was an early advocate for the construction of the Ridge Route, the first highway through the Tehachapi Mountains and San Gabriel Mountains, which directly linked Los Angeles to Bakersfield and the Central Valley.

Most of the late part of the 20th century, Wonder Acres was in the Mojave Unified School District, the Tehachapi Cemetery District, yet it was not included in either area's telephone area code.

Beery, Jr. died in 1994 in Tehachapi, California of a cerebral thrombosis and was interred in the Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery with his father and mother, Margarite Lindsey.

The country format at 103. 1 in Tehachapi, California was moved to 97. 7 FM ( now operating under 103. 1's former call letters KTPI ) and is now branded as 97. 7 KTPI.

In 1876, seven years after the transcontinental railroad was finished, the rail line was laid down Soledad Canyon, linking LA to the north, after a 6, 000 foot tunnel through San Fernando pass ( still used by Metrolink ) and the extraordinary Tehachapi Loop, where trains circle on grades over top of themselves to gain altitude.

It was enjoyed by residents and guests alike before being destroyed by the July 21, 1952 Tehachapi earthquake.

Gernier, after losing her appeal in January 1950, was released from Tehachapi Prison after serving less than a year-and-a-half, in May 1951.

( See also The Tehachapi News 12 / 10 / 1997 )

Southern California is separated from the rest of the state by the east-west trending Transverse Ranges, including the Tehachapi, which separate the Central Valley from the Mojave Desert.

The Mojave Desert is bounded by the peninsular Tehachapi Mountains on the Northwest, together with the San Gabriel and the San Bernardino Mountains on the Southwest.

For example, in the Tehachapi Mountains of southern California they occurred in stands dominated by canyon live oak ( Q. chrysolepis ).

The initial pumping station fed by the Sacramento River Delta raises the water, while a series of pumps culminating at the Edmonston Pumping Plant raises the water over the Tehachapi Mountains.

Most of Route 14 is loosely paralleled by a main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, used for the Antelope Valley Line of the Metrolink commuter rail system as well as a connection between Los Angeles and the California Central Valley via Tehachapi Pass.

Two at-grade intersections within of each other around mile 76, roughly halfway between Bakersfield and Mojave, would have to be either closed or upgraded to interchanges for the whole of Route 58 to be up to Interstate standards, and the at-grade junction of Route 58 and US 395 in Kramer Junction is further complicated by the nearby Union Pacific Railroad Tehachapi line ( a busy single track over which BNSF also operates ) which Route 58 also crosses at grade to the west.

* Tehachapi Pass-Pass used by the rail lines connecting southern and northern California

The Tehachapi Mountains are also crossed by Tejon Pass at the southwest end of the range.

It is fed by the West Branch California Aqueduct water, after being pumped up from the San Joaquin Valley and through the Tehachapi Mountains

The first Tejon Pass ( original ) between the Mojave Desert ( and New Spain ) over the Tehachapi Mountains to the southern San Joaquin Valley floor ( future site of Bakersfield ) had been discovered by Garcés in 1776, eastward from the Anza Colonizing Expedition route.

In 1856, Lieutenant Williamson, on a railroad surveying party, " discovered " that the pass, sometimes named " Williamson Pass ", could provide the lower grades to make Los Angeles-Central Valley train travel possible by the roundabout detour all the way to Mojave, and over Tehachapi Pass, almost 70 miles farther than the direct Interstate 5 used today by trucks and autos.

This Tejon Pass Route and the Tehachapi or Midway Route ( first followed by the Southern Pacific Railroad ), remained the major north south wagon and later automobile routes to the San Joaquin Valley until the construction of the more direct Ridge Route in 1915.

The remainder is then powered over the Tehachapi Mountains via a pump lift.

All of 68 bird species observed in oak woodlands of the Tehachapi Mountains of California used California black oak for part of their foraging activities.

Carobeth Laird indicates their traditional territory spanned the High Desert from the Colorado River on the east to the Tehachapi Mountains on the west and from the Las Vegas area and Death Valley on the north to the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains in the south.

The term is also applied to the area north of the Tehachapi Mountains.

Another definition for Southern California uses the Tehachapi Mountains as the northern boundary.

The cities of Bakersfield, California City, Maricopa, Ridgecrest, Taft, Tehachapi, and the unincorporated areas had a plurality or majority of voters registered Republican.

The Central Valley is wide, the Sierra Nevada to the east and the Coast Ranges and San Francisco Bay to the west, as far south as the Tehachapi Mountains.

Grassland flowers include California poppy ( Eschscholzia californica ), lupins, and Purple Owl's Clover ( Castilleja exserta ) which can still be seen, especially in Antelope Valley in the Tehachapi hills.

Bear Valley Springs is located in the greater Tehachapi area.

He serves on the Tehachapi Fire Safety Council.

Golden Hills is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California, United States.

Golden Hills adjoins the city of Tehachapi on the west.

Keene ( formerly, Wells ) is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Kern County, California in the foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains at the southern extreme of the San Joaquin Valley.

Keene is located in the greater Tehachapi area.

He is buried at 29700 Woodford Tehachapi Rd, Keene, CA 93531, on the campus of the UFW headquarters.

Tehachapi () is a city in Kern County, California, in the Tehachapi Mountains, at an elevation of between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.