With a healthy snowpack in the Sierras, the Kern River above Isabella Lake is running full and local businesses can take you for as much or as little adventure as you can handle. "Forty-five ...

The Bakersfield Californian Kern River rafting season was one wild ride, and it's not over yet Steven Mayer, The Bakersfield Californian Tue, Aug 29, 2023 · 3 min read ...

Suffice to say that, three decades later, it was a touch loaded to be on my first multiday rafting trip with my chosen family of Erin and Etta—and especially for it to be on the Kern, which Erin ...

Record storms and epic snowpack will mean plenty of water for rafting companies like Sierra South Mountain Sports, shown here leading an early-season tour on the Upper Kern River. (Myung J. Chun ...

I’ve been avoiding it.” Dismal snowpack levels in the southern Sierra Nevada have forced rafting companies up and down the 165-mile Kern River to make tough business decisions this year.

Kern River Valley is one of the areas that was hardest hit due to the drought. With warm temperatures and low water levels, many rafting companies had to make modifications or offer alternatives.

River's End Rafting is a white water rafting company in Northeast Bakersfield. During the summer they have daily trips down the Kern River from just inside the canyon to just north of Ming Lake.

No matter if you want to hit the river for a half day or make it an overnight camping trip, the tour guides at Kern River Outfitters will hook you up with a memorable white water rafting experience.

On Monday, authorities found the body of a man who had been rafting with his son, who is between 12 and 14 years old. They were on the Kern River west of Lake Isabella when they were thrown out of ...

To call 2023 an unusual water year in the Kern River Basin would be a serious understatement. But then in August it got even more unusual. Just as the whitewater rafting season was beginning to ...

This adventure would be a very different beast: more challenging rapids, to say nothing of the sense of immersion that any rafting junkie will tell you comes only by making the river your home for ...