Lebec is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southwestern Kern County, California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,239.
Lebec as seen from I-5 southbound in 2021
A distinctive residential house in Lebec
Lebec Post Office
A section of the 1915 Ridge Route in Lebec, California, abandoned when U.S. 99 (later upgraded to I-5) was constructed over the Tejon Pass in order to make the travel straighter and safer.
Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass
The Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass, or the Frazier Mountain Communities, in the San Emigdio Mountains is a region of California that includes Lebec, Frazier Park, Lake of the Woods, Pinon Pines, and Pine Mountain Club, in Kern County, Gorman in Los Angeles County and Lockwood Valley within Kern and Ventura counties. They are all within or near the Tejon Pass, which links Southern California with the San Joaquin Valley. Also sometimes included within the communities are Cuddy Valley, Grapevine, Neenach and New Cuyama.
Sign listing six of the Mountain Communities (2008)
Some of the people who live in the Mountain Communities at a Halloween celebration in Frazier Park (2008)
One of the distinctive houses in a Lebec neighborhood (2008)
