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Tehachapi, California. Tehachapi (/ təˈhætʃəpi / ⓘ; Kawaiisu: Tihachipia, meaning "hard climb") [7][8] is a city in Kern County, California, United States, in the Tehachapi Mountains, at an elevation of 3,970 feet (1,210 m), [4] between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. Tehachapi is 35 miles (56 km) east-southeast of ...
The eastern Tehachapi foothills: panoramic view with the Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm. The origin of the name Tehachapi may come from the Kawaiisu language, derived from the word "tihachipia" translated as "hard climb". [11] The historic Indigenous peoples of California with homelands in the Tehachapi Mountains were the: Kitanemuk; Kawaiisu [12 ...
Tehachapi Loop. The Tehachapi Loop is a 3,779-foot-long (0.72 mi; 1.15 km) spiral, [1] or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad Mojave Subdivision through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert.
State Route 58 (SR 58) is a major east-west state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs across the Coast Ranges, the southern San Joaquin Valley, the Tehachapi Mountains, which border the southern Sierra Nevada, and the Mojave Desert. It runs between U.S. Route 101 near Santa Margarita and Interstate 15 in Barstow.
FIPS code. 06-30282. GNIS feature ID. 1867025. Golden Hills is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California, United States. The population was 8,656 at the 2010 census, up from 7,434 at the 2000 census. Golden Hills adjoins the city of Tehachapi on the west.
The Alta Wind Energy Center is a wind farm located in Tehachapi Pass of the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California. As of 2022, it is the largest wind farm in the United States, [ 1 ] with a combined installed capacity of 1,550 MW (2,080,000 hp). The project, being developed near Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm — site of the first large ...
The Tejon Pass / t eɪ ˈ h oʊ n, t ə ˈ h oʊ n, ˈ t eɪ. h oʊ n /, previously known as Portezuelo de Cortes, Portezuela de Castac, and Fort Tejon Pass is a mountain pass between the southwest end of the Tehachapi Mountains and northeastern San Emigdio Mountains, linking Southern California north to the Central Valley.
The pass is located in Kern County, California, 15 miles (24 km) to the northeast of the current Tejon Pass.It runs at the top of a divide between a point about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of the Rancho Tejon boundary in Tejon Creek Canyon, and Cottonwood Creek Canyon north of the Antelope Valley.