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Audubon
Kern River Preserve works closely with the
California Department of Fish & Game on managing
the Canebrake Ecological Reserve (CER). There are
several units in the CER, the first unit was
purchased in 1994. The former Bloomfield Ranch
is a 1400-acre wildlife sanctuary.
At the
Bloomfield Ranch unit, a paved wheel-chair
accessible trail leads
from the parking area off of Highway 178 through
a Joshua tree woodland to a wooden bridge
that crosses Canebrake Creek. The path then winds
through a riparian forest restored by Audubon and
Fish & Game in 2000. The
1.5 mile long trail dead ends at a picnic area
under the rocky cliff of the Chimney Peak area.
There are no restroom facilities or water at the
trail and there is no cell phone reception in
the Canebrake area. How to
get there: The CER is located along
Highway 178, 20 miles east of Lake Isabella,
8.4 miles east of the Kern
River Preserve, and 5 miles east of the
town of Onyx in
northeastern Kern County.
Public access is via
the dirt parking lot on
the north side of Highway 178 just before the big curve in
the road. You need an
able bodied person to open and shut the gate at
the entrance to the parking lot (DFG staff are
working to put in a cattle guard so this
hopefully won't be the case for too much longer).
There is an information sign
and map at the head of
the public use trail. Leave
gates the way you find them or follow posted
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