mountain communities

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Lebec is an unicorporated area and census-designed place in Kern County California. It is one of the Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass, and the home of the Tejon Ranch Company. Lebec is 40 miles south of Bakersfield.

Frazier Park is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kern County, California. It is 5 miles west of Lebec, at an elevation of 4,639 feet. It is one of the Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass. The population was 2,592 in the 2020 census.  

Lake of the Woods is an unincorporated area in southwestern Kern County, California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 790. The community is in Cuddy Canyon in the San Emigdio Mountains, along the Ventura and Kern County line. It is within the Los Padres National Forest. 

Lockwood Valley is an unincorporated community located in an eponymous valley in northeastern Ventura County, southern California and part of the Mountain Communities of the Tejon pass. 

Pinon Pines is located in a small valley between the San Jacinto Mountains and Santa Rosa Mountains, north of State Route 74. It takes its name from the Pinyon pine (Pinus monophylla) trees native to the area. Pinon Pines sits at an elevation of approximately 4000 feet.  

Cuddy Valley is a valley in the San Andreas Rift Zone south of the San Emigdio Mountains west of Tejon Pass, part of the Mountain Communities. It lies at an elevation of 5,282 feet.

Pine Mountain Club is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in southwestern Kern County, California. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 2,315. It is one of the Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass.

Gorman is an unincorporated community in northwestern Los Angeles County. It is located in Peace Valley, south of the Tejon Pass, which links Southern California with the San Juaquin Valley and Northern California. Due to this location, the area has served as a historic travel stop dating back to the indigenous people of California. Tens of thousands of motorists travel through Gorman daily on the Golden State Freeway since the highway's completion in the mid-20th Century.