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Nature Attractions In Inyokern

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Indian Wells Brewing Company

Badwater Basin

Manzanar National Historic Site

Dante's View

Mosaic Canyon

Golden Canyon

Alabama Hills

Inyokern is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Its name derives from its location near the border between Inyo and Kern Counties. Inyokern is located 8 miles west of Ridgecrest, at an elevation of 2,434 feet . It is on the western side of the Indian Wells Valley. The population was 1,099 at the 2010 census, up from 984 at the 2000 census. It was a railroad town established along the Southern Pacific railroad's Lone Pine Branch . It is served by Inyokern Airport.
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Nature Attractions In Inyokern

1. Badwater Basin Death Valley National Park
Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America, with a depth of 282 ft below sea level. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, is only 84.6 miles to the northwest.The site itself consists of a small spring-fed pool of bad water next to the road in a sink; the accumulated salts of the surrounding basin make it undrinkable, thus giving it the name. The pool does have animal and plant life, including pickleweed, aquatic insects, and the Badwater snail. Adjacent to the pool, where water is not always present at the surface, repeated freeze–thaw and evaporation cycles gradually push the thin salt crust into hexagonal honeycomb shapes. The pool is not the lowest ...
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2. Alabama Hills Lone Pine
The Alabama Hills are a range of hills and rock formations near the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in the Owens Valley, west of Lone Pine in Inyo County, California, United States. Though geographically separate from the Sierra Nevada, they are part of the same geological formation.
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3. Mosaic Canyon Death Valley National Park
4. Golden Canyon Death Valley National Park
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area is a U.S. National Recreation Area protecting 82,027 acres of ecologically and historically significant landscapes surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area. Much of the park is land formerly used by the United States Army. GGNRA is managed by the National Park Service and is one of the most visited units of the National Park system in the United States, with more than 15 million visitors a year. It is also one of the largest urban parks in the world, with a size two-and-a-half times that of the consolidated city and county of San Francisco. The park is not one continuous locale, but rather a collection of areas that stretch from southern San Mateo County to northern Marin County, and includes several areas of San Francisco. The park is as diverse as i...
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Inyokern Videos

LADWP Releasing Water into Desert

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Due to the wet winter across most of California, many of the reservoirs are at capacity. The LADWP started releasing excessive water into the desert region of the Indian Wells Valley, near Inyokern CA. The water travels through several washes and eventually ends up at the lakebed of China Lake Navel Weapons Station. Water began to be released on Monday Feb 27th from both pipelines, at a combined rate of about 1.5 million cubic feet per day. Water can be seen from Highway 14, Brown Rd in Inyokern, and Highway 395.

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