Klipstein Canyon Road (Kern County)

[Max Rockatansky]

Klipstein Canyon Road is an approximately 6.2-mile rural highway located in the San Emigdio Mountains of Kern County.  This highway begins at Hudson Ranch Road and travels northward through Cienega Canyon and Devils Gulch to California State Routes 166 and 33 near Maricopa.  Klipstein Canyon Road is maintained as Kern County Mountain Road 277.

What is now Klipstein Canyon Road was part of the original stage corridor in Cienega Canyon between Cuyama Valley and Kern Lake.  Following construction of the Grocer Grade in Sunset Canyon the Cienega Canyon corridor would mostly become associated with an oil boom at Pattiway.  During the 1950s the northern part of the highway was realigned near Klipstein Ranch to better align with Maricopa.  The highway name was changed to Klipstein Canyon Road despite Cienega Canyon never having been actually renamed. 

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