Mountain Meadows California Map
Explore Mountain Meadows, California, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
Interactive Map of Mountain Meadows, California
How to Use This Mountain Meadows, California Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Mountain Meadows, California. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of California or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Mountain Meadows.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Mountain Meadows |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | Kern County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 35.093565 |
| Longitude | -118.432687 |
| Population | 303 |
| Density | 28.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 93561 |
| Area Code | 760 |
| County Seat | Bakersfield |
| School District | Tehachapi Unified School District |
About Mountain Meadows, California
Mountain Meadows is a locality in Kern County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 303. The population density is 28.5 people per km². Mountain Meadows is located at 35.0936°N, 118.4327°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 93561.Mountain Meadows occupies a sun-bleached expanse defined by the stark, earthen geometry of Antelope Canyon. It lies 2.0 miles south-southeast of Tehachapi, CA (from Tehachapi, CA: bearing 164°T), and is situated 4.0 miles southeast of Golden Hills. The landscape stretches out in shades of ochre and pale gold, where the dry grasses shiver under a relentless, crystalline sky that drains the color from the horizon long before dusk. Barely a mile away, the quiet perimeter of Warrior Park offers a refuge of native shrubs, while the distant, jagged silhouette of the Sierra Nevada serves as a faint, ghostly reminder of the high country far to the north. Three miles from the center, the intermittent flow of Tehachapi Creek carves a shallow, stony path through the dust, its banks marked by the persistent, twisted skeletons of oaks that have weathered a lifetime of intense heat.
Mountain Meadows sustains a quiet, deliberate pace of life, dictated by the cycles of the land and the modest demands of its local economy. The legacy of the region is written in the hard-packed soil and the scattered homesteads that have long persisted in the shadow of the basin. Residents often find a moment of respite near the cooling edges of Tom Sawyer Lake, where the reflection of the clouds provides a brief, shimmering contrast to the pervasive dryness of the scrubland. There is a singular, austere dignity in the way the local day concludes, as the light flattens against the ground and the heat finally relents, leaving the inhabitants to navigate the cooling shadows of an expansive, inland terrain.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Warrior Park (Local Park) — 1.7 mi, 319° NW
- Coy Burnett Stadium (Stadium) — 2.6 mi, 356° N
- Tehachapi Heritage League Museum (Museum) — 2.6 mi, 341° N
- Errea House Museum (Museum) — 2.6 mi, 340° N
- Hitching Post (Cinema) — 2.7 mi, 341° N
- BeeKay Theatre (Theatre) — 2.8 mi, 342° N
- Historic Water Tower (Attraction) — 2.8 mi, 344° N
- Tehachapi Depot Museum (Museum) — 2.8 mi, 342° N
- Tehachapi Mountain Park (Local Park) — 3.0 mi, 241° SW
- Frank And Joan Randall Preserve (Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 339° N
- Pacific Crest Trail National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 5.0 mi, 144° SE · 1,886 acres
- Horse Canyon Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 8.7 mi, 045° NE
- Tehachapi Loop Overlook (Monument) — 9.1 mi, 321° NW
- Middle Knob Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 9.1 mi, 083° E
- California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 9.3 mi, 027° NE
- The Cross on the Loop (Monument) — 9.5 mi, 322° NW
- César E. Chávez National Monument (National Monument) — 11.5 mi, 322° NW · 2 acres
- Martyr's Rock (Monument) — 11.9 mi, 322° NW
- Airplane graveyard viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 16.4 mi, 094° E
- Sequoia National Forest (National Forest) — 20.3 mi, 015° N · 1.1M acres
- Tuf Quarry Mill (Historic Ruins) — 24.0 mi, 175° S
- Angeles National Forest (National Forest) — 27.0 mi, 182° S · 662k acres
- Bright Star Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 27.4 mi, 020° N · 8,761 acres
- Sandberg's Summit Hotel (Historic Ruins) — 29.0 mi, 213° SW
- Red cliffs trail (Attraction) — 31.7 mi, 054° NE
- One Desert Sky (Public Artwork) — 32.1 mi, 147° SE
- California Living Museum (Museum) — 34.7 mi, 313° NW
- Sespe Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 37.2 mi, 213° SW · 220k acres
- Memorial Stadium (Stadium) — 37.2 mi, 306° NW
- Valley Plaza Stadium (Cinema) — 38.0 mi, 296° NW
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About This Mountain Meadows Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mountain Meadows, California. Coordinates: 35.093565, -118.432687. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Mountain Meadows includes the ZIP code (93561), telephone area code (760), county seat of Kern County (Bakersfield), and school district assignment (Tehachapi Unified School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |
