Golf in Bear Valley Springs

Bear Valley Springs is a gated residential community in Kern County in the Tehachapi Mountains, at roughly 4,200 feet elevation south of Tehachapi. The community sits in a broad mountain valley in the Tehachapi range, where the terrain separates the San Joaquin Valley to the north from the Mojave Desert to the south and east. Kern County's mountain communities occupy the elevated terrain of the Tehachapi and southern Sierra Nevada ranges at the southern end of the county. Bear Valley Springs is a private community with its own amenities and governance, drawing residents who want a mountain setting with rural character. The community is accessible from Tehachapi and State Route 58, which crosses the Tehachapi Mountains and connects the San Joaquin Valley to the Mojave Desert. The surrounding terrain includes mixed conifer and oak forest at these mountain elevations.