Directory
California City community directory
A directory is only worth having if someone has checked it. This one is compiled by hand, starting with the organisations people with a stake in California City actually deal with. Businesses come later, and only once each can be checked.
This section is in progress · entries checked
Small desert towns are badly served by directory sites. The large aggregators are full of businesses that closed years ago, phone numbers that ring nowhere, and listings duplicated across a dozen near-identical sites. The approach here is the opposite: a short list, each entry opened and read on the date above, and removed when it stops being true.
Community organisations in and around California City
- California City Chamber of Commerce
- The town's business association, which runs Desert Tortoise Days, the spring festival. Central Park and the festival.
- California City Landowners Association
- A private membership organisation for people who own vacant land in the city, formed in 1993. What it does, and its seat on a city committee.
- East Kern Historical Museum Society
- The historical society for California City, Boron and Mojave. Its museum was destroyed by fire in the early 1980s; its website keeps the history, and the society meets monthly at the senior center in Central Park. The history of California City.
- Friends of Jawbone
- A nonprofit of off-highway riders and agency representatives, formed in 1998, that supports the Bureau of Land Management's Jawbone Station visitor center on Highway 14. Jawbone Canyon.
- Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee
- Looks after the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area northeast of town, and has a naturalist there from mid-March to mid-June. The Rand Mountains and the tortoise natural area.
- Bureau of Land Management, Ridgecrest Field Office
- The federal office for the public land around the city: Jawbone Canyon, Dove Springs, the Rand Mountains and the El Paso Mountains, and the 2026 route closures. OHV riding in California City.
- Red Rock Canyon State Park
- The California State Parks unit on Highway 14 north of town. Red Rock Canyon State Park.
Businesses
Not listed yet. Each one needs checking by hand, and until that is done this page would rather say so than publish a scrape. If you run something here and want to be listed when the list opens, or you know of a listing elsewhere that is wrong, get in touch. There is no fee for a listing and there will not be one.
Know this subject better than this page does? Send a correction or a contribution. In the meantime, California City at a glance, Visiting and Nearby are written and sourced.