- Go downhill skiing at Shirley Meadows
- Go cross country skiing in the Los Padres National Forest
- Try snow shoeing in the mountains
- Enjoy auto racing at one of five Kern County tracks
- Take in a baseball game (Bakersfield Blaze, Tampa Bay Devil Rays Class A affiliate)
- Go whitewater rafting on the Wild and Scenic Kern River
- Learn to fly fish in one of Kern's many creeks or streams
- Go climb a rock (Kern River Valley)
- Take a hike (attractions county-wide)
- Go bird watching (Kern River Preserve, Kern Wildlife Refuge or Los Padres National Forest)
- Paddle a lake kayak on Isabella Lake
- Ride a mountain bike (attractions county-wide)
- Take a walking tour of Old Town Kern
- Visit the Tehachapi Loop
- Visit the Shafter Depot Museum
- Take a wildflower drive (mountain locations)
- See historic buildings at Pioneer Village
- Kern has plenty of places to swim
- It's time to go camping
- Remember a country music legend at Buck Owens Crystal Palace
- Hey! Kern County has a hockey team (Bakersfield Condors)
- Experience oilfield history at the West Kern Oil Museum
- Check out a rare animal at the Tule Elk State Reserve near Tupman
- Spend a day with "big cats" at Rosamond's Exotic Feline Breeding Compound.
- See Kern's native animals and plants at the California Living Museum near Bakersfield
- Visit authentic ghost towns at Randsburg and Silver City
- Walk among the big trees at Trail of 100 Giants
- Time to go off-roading (Jawbone Canyon, Dove Springs)
- See the majestic Trona Pinnacles
- Take a romantic weekend at a secluded cabin or a bed and breakfast
- Visit the Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards Air Force Base
- Tour the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base
- See military hardware at Naval Museum of Armament and Technology (China Lake)
- Sample Kern's famous Basque cuisine
- See the cliffs at Red Rock Canyon State Park
- Water skiing
- Golf the valley
- Golf the mountains
- Golf the desert
- Take in some live theater
- Remember WWII with a trip to the Minter Field Air Museum
- Grab some culture: visit the Bakersfield Museum of Art
- Take a petroglyph tour through Ridgecrest's Maturango Museum
- How about a picnic?
- Tour the wind farms near Tehachapi
- Take a glider flight at Tehachapi, California City or Inyokern
- Bike the Kern River Parkway
- Wanna try skydiving? California City and Taft are premiere sites.
- See a civil war re-enactment at Fort Tejon
- Hunt for treasures in Kern's many antique districts
- Relive the days of the wagon train (20 Mule Team Museum and U.S. Borax Visitors Center)
- Like flowers? Visit Lakeside Garden at Isabella Lake or the Kern River Preserve at Weldon.
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