Tehachapi Pass
Tehachapi Pass is a mountain pass crossing the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, California. Traditionally, the pass marks the northeast end of the Tehachapis and the south end of the Sierra Nevada range.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 3,799 feet
- Description: Mountain pass in California, United States
- Also known as: “Tehachapai Pass”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Monolith.
Monolith
Locality
Photo: Dracblau7, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Monolith is an unincorporated community in the Tehachapi Valley, in Kern County, California. The community is located 4.5 miles east of Tehachapi, at an elevation of 3,966 feet in the southern Sierra Nevada and eastern Tehachapi Pass areas. Monolith is situated 5 miles west of Tehachapi Pass.
Tehachapi Pass
- Categories: rail mountain pass and landform
- Location: Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.10155° or 35° 6′ 6″ northLongitude
-118.28287° or 118° 16′ 58″ westElevation
3,799 feet (1,158 metres)Open location code
85734P28+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 10157150713OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Japanese—“Tehachapi Pass” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Tehachapi Pass”
- French: “col de Tehachapi”
- French: “Col Tehachapi”
- German: “Tehachapi Pass”
- German: “Tehachapi-Pass”
- Japanese: “テハチャピ峠”
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