Scenic 395 - The Official Guide 2025

2025 Scenic 395 25 dors. Bring your date to enjoy a Whiskey Flat Street Dance, on Valentine’s Day, with a DJ. Come listen to the popular southern rock and outlaw country band, Angels Roost, perform some live music. Decide to view a melodrama. Watch a parade and come see an old west shootout. Enter a costume contest or a whiskeri- no contest. Bring your pet to enter a pet parade. Come to see an Iron Horse (motorcycle) Rodeo. The town of Kernville, and the rest of the Kern Valley, has some great saloons, gift shops, galleries, and a myriad of ex- cellent lodging accommodations. Recreation opportunities are endless, including great fishing, camping, lake boating at Lake Isabella, Kern River rafting, hiking, rock climbing, and biking spots, parks, and skate spots. Among all these perks you may enjoy eating at some very tasty local coffee shops and eateries. For all you seekers of cemetery adventures, come take a tour of one of the valley’s oldest cemeteries. The Kern River Valley Historical Society will be giving tours of the Kern River Val- ley Cemetery District’s “Old Cemetery.” District manager for the cemetery, Orion Sanders, planned this venture along with history buffs. He said, “We’re working in conjunction with the historical society. It’s a partnership that we’re going to do, for Whiskey Flat Days, providing tours of the Old Cemetery.” Keep an eye out for their tours, at the Annex, across fromKern Valley Museum. Nevertheless, despite all these attractions, the Whiskey Flat Encampment is what stands out as the basis of Whiskey Flat Days. Ananian said, “I think people watch movies, they read books about old west culture, the WildWest and bank robbers and Indians and this kind of thing. And they visit towns like Kern River Continued from Page 24 Continued on Page 26 Cowboy Church takes place at a past Whiskey Flat Days. Courtesy of Whiskey Flat Encampment founder, producer Mike Woodward