California Valley is an unincorporated community located in the eastern part of San Luis Obispo County, California, in the northern portion of the Carrizo Plain.
Wildflowers off Bitterwater Road, California Valley, March 2010.
California Valley
Aerial view northeast, with community center at lower right next to northern end of runway at right edge. Soda Lake Road is visible running diagonally up toward the left. The main community is about one mile (1.6 km) further south beyond the other end of the runway.
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The Carrizo Plain is a large enclosed grassland plain, approximately 50 miles (80 km) long and up to 15 miles (24 km) across, in southeastern San Luis Obispo County, California, United States, about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Los Angeles. The southern portion of the Carrizo Plain is within the 246,812-acre (99,881 ha) Carrizo Plain National Monument, which also includes most of the Caliente Range. The Carrizo Plain is the largest single native grassland remaining in California. It includes Painted Rock in the Carrizo Plain Rock Art Discontiguous District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2012 it was further designated a National Historic Landmark due to its archeological value. The San Andreas Fault occurs along the eastern edge of the Carrizo Plain at the western base of the Temblor Range.
Aerial view of the Carrizo Plain. The San Andreas Fault is on the right.
Superbloom in the Temblor Range, April 2017
Aerial view of the south end of Soda Lake in Carrizo Plain National Monument
Wallace Creek offset by the San Andreas Fault, by about 430 feet (131 meters) in the last 3,700 years.