Bakersfield: The Summit 10 Attractions


Last week, I saw a listing of the most underrated cities inwards each state. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 vino county upward due north was listed for California.  That's non fifty-fifty a metropolis as well as wineries point this state's map similar measles. 

If you lot know me or are a long fourth dimension reader of this site, you lot know what metropolis I intend is the most underrated and, no, it's non a joke (it seems every fourth dimension I post service something almost this metropolis at the bottom of the San Joaquin Valley, individual thinks I'm pulling their leg).

 It's cheap, it's real, it's fun, as well as it's exclusively 2 hours due north of Los Angeles...Bakersfield.

Here are our occur 10 attractions inwards this metropolis that is surprisingly amount of them.

10. Take a hike along the Kern River inwards Hart Park.  When it's flowing skillful inwards the spring, you'll encounter a lot of kayakers challenging themselves inwards the rapids here.  It's a gorgeous, natural river inwards a woodland setting, even as well as then inwards the metropolis limits.

9. CALM, also inwards Hart Park, is Bakersfield's zoo. Only animals that cannot hold upward released into the wild (injured, pets, or likewise used to humans) are displayed here.

8. Wind Wolves Reserve, due south of town, is a real large protected natural expanse with dandy hiking upward into the following mountains as well as a birder's paradise.

7. Tule Elk Reserve...climb upward into the wheelchair-accessible viewing stand upward to encounter if you lot tin encounter these miniature as well as endangered elk merely westward of town.

 6. Minor league hockey at Rabobank Arena downtown. The Ducks nestling league team, the Condors, play hither during the season.

5. Kern County Museum, due north of downtown on Chester, has recreated an historical hamlet out of quondam buildings that were saved as well as moved here. Next on the listing is the solid that Merle Haggard grew upward in, made out of an quondam boxcar, which has been moved hither as well as restored. The stone oil manufacture department is non to hold upward missed every bit is their collection of old, Bakersfield neon signs.

4. The Bakersfield Blaze is a unmarried Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 nestling league baseball game squad that plays inwards the ancient Sam Lynn Ballpark, merely due north of the Kern County Museum, also on Chester. (The Blaze discontinued operations inwards 2016. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel independent squad has replaced them, the Bakersfield Train Robbers - Ed)

3. Bakersfield is huge inwards the basis of Country music, it's basically Nashville westward as well as fifty-fifty has it's ain "Bakersfield Sound." The concluding of the truthful honky tonks sits on Chester inwards Oildale, across the Kern River from Bakersfield. It's Trout's.  Closed, June 2017. Try Ethel's Old Corral close Hart Park instead.

2. The metropolis has 3 auto race tracks...a drag strip inwards nearby Famoso, a 1/2 mile paved rail amongst I-5 westward of town...Kern Raceway...and Bakersfield Speedway inwards Oildale.  We prefer the 1/3 mile dirt rail of Bakersfield Speedway. The activity is tighter as well as to a greater extent than exciting summation they convey decent nutrient as well as a prissy selections of beers.

1. The Crystal Palace is the house to become for a to a greater extent than upscale province music show. This steakhouse as well as nightclub built yesteryear the legendary Buck Owens serves upward hearty nutrient as well as alive province music. 

 There you lot go, the occur 10 things to produce inwards Bakersfield...and nosotros didn't fifty-fifty larn into the fantastic array of places to consume yet, either.

 Darryl
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