RV Camping Adventure: Discovering Kernville and the Southern Sierra
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- 🚐💨 Join us on our RV Camping Adventure as we explore the Southern Sierra area.
🌲🏞️ Exploring Kern River to Lake Isabella: Dive into our journey as we traverse the stunning landscapes of Kern River and Lake Isabella. From the captivating scenic drives to the serene moments by the riverside, our adventure is filled with awe-inspiring views and heartwarming experiences.
🌄 Enchanting Landscapes & Local Gems: Witness the transformation of landscapes as we move from Paso Robles, through the rolling hills adorned with grapevines, to the vibrant and diverse ecosystems surrounding Lake Isabella. We uncover hidden gems like Blackwells Corner General Store, indulge in the local flavors at McNally's, and marvel at the unique artwork at Soda Springs.
🏞️ Nature's Splendor: Experience the raw beauty of nature as we navigate the challenging trails and capture the serene beauty of Alder Creek’s Four Falls with our drone. The Kern River, with its rushing waters and rich vegetation, offers an immersive experience into the heart of California's wilderness.
🚤 Lake Isabella's Allure: At Lake Isabella, we explore the impact of high water levels on boondocking spots, enjoy the refreshing winds, and are captivated by the stunning sunsets against the Southern Sierras. It's a perfect blend of relaxation and exploration.
🌟 Conclusion of Our Journey: As we conclude our adventure, we reflect on the beauty, the unexpected detours, and the diverse experiences that made this journey unforgettable.
Contents:
0:0 - Leaving Paso Robles
4:18 - Sherman Pass Road / Alder Creek
9:35 - Fairview Campground and McNally's
11:50 - Upper Kern River
15:04 - Lake Isabella / Camp 9
18:09 - Dispersed camping around Lake Isabella
20:48 - Breaking Camp
See also our 360 degree tour of Fairview Campground here: • Fairview Campground (K...
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When we visited Kern river we find so much trash it was sad to see how some people don’t appreciate the beauty of nature.
Yes, we did notice some too. Such a shame. Up near our campground there was not much fortunately. Thanks for the comment!
@@bobanddangsjourney Sure that’s why you pay for campground they clean but if you want free camping well it’s really bad and that’s why you can barely find any free camping these days. I parked on the water it was one of the most beautiful places we camped.
I live up here and it makes the residents very upset we have groups who go out and clean call keepers of the kern outside of that the county and camp grounds doesn't seem to do much to help and visitors just keep making it their trash can, not to mention the horrible graffiti 😢
Awesome! Such beautiful landscapes at those campgrounds and surrounding areas....Wow! You sure go on some fun adventures!
Thanks, this was a lot of fun and we need to go back. We appreciate your support as always - Bob and Dang
Great video! Thanks for presenting my backyard as a nice place to visit. Also, great videography. 👍
Thanks so much, glad you liked it! You live in a beautiful place. Take care :)
Really enjoy your well written and informative narrative.
Thank you - we really appreciate the feedback and glad you liked it!
one the nicer camping sites something for everyone thank you for sharen this gem
Yes, we enjoyed it very much. Thanks for the comment and happy camping to you!
Very nice!!! btw you're a very good narrator, maybe a new side gig in the future?
Best RV content on youtube! Great footage and info without all the nonsense. Thank you and subscribed!
Thanks so much for the compliment - we are happy you enjoyed this and that validates our hard work. Welcome aboard - we will attempt to bring better and better content with each new offering!
Spending more time outdoors than indoors is great, going to different places. there's so much to see out there.
We agree 100%! thanks for watching and leaving a comment - happy camping!
WOW. The road and boulders looked a little scary but will worth it, oh my gosh what beauty. I loved the waterfall and the Kern river also. Those hamburgers looked delicious. Thanks for sharing 👏❤️
Thanks so much for the comment! It was a great trip despite the rough drive up the canyon. We really enjoyed it and will be back. You should have seen Dang jump when that first Jet flew over - it took a while to realize it was a jet - not what you expect in the forrest like that! Thanks again!
thanks for posting and nice truck & TT.
Thanks for watching - and for the comment! We do like our setup, suits us perfectly :)
Beautiful waterfall find on that side road. Love the above aerial drone view of the waterfall. Thank you for sharing haveva good day.🙂
Thanks, yes we were lucky on that find, we had no idea what was up there. Thanks for watching and leaving the comment - best wishes for the holiday season!
Sketchiest road out that way!!!! Love the Kern!
You know it. That road definitely keeps you on edge! Thanks for watching and the comment :)
Well done! I went over Sherman Pass last Saturday.
That must have been awesome! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. We appreciate it :). Safe travels
Lake isabella is a great place to camp but the wind gets so annoying... we stay away from the Kern river every year somebody passes away . We camp on the auxiliary camp ground water doesn't have algae but it gets super windy ..
Yes we have been there just twice (first time at Auxiliary Dam) and both times it has been pretty windy. Thanks much for the comment and safe travels.
Last time I was there a freak storm come in on us and we woke up to 1" of snow on the ground.
Thanks for showing us the beauty that area has to offer!
Oh man that must have been fun! They say it can snow any month of the year in the Sierra - guess you found that out personally :). Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
Wow, thanks for sharing. You passed our home before entering Kern Canyon. 😂
We have to check out the first campground !
Oh wow, well next time we go up that way we will drop you a note - you are so close to so many nice places! Likewise if you come down to San Diego - we have a several wineries around the house here that do harvest hosting :) Thanks for the comment and your support :)
@@bobanddangsjourney we are so close and yet don’t know those places well at all. 😂We just got home from camping in San Diego last night. Didn’t know there are wineries there
@BamBamRVAdventures We are east, in Ramona - maybe 45 minutes from La Jolla. There are 5 HH wineries and 2 HH farms up here. We have been to them but never stayed (too close to home). Enjoy the holiday !
@@bobanddangsjourney Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍽
Nice video I enjoyed watching it
Thanks - we really appreciate you taking the time to let us know - that validates the time spent. Have fun and catch lots of fish!
Again a awesome and high quality video!
Thanks for watching and for the comment - it was a great trip - and where we first installed our GasStop! :)
Che meraviglia, bellissimo video 👏🏻
Thank you so much for the comment - it is a beautiful area!
Loved the four falls. Great footage. I need more drone practice 🤙🤠
Thank you - we really appreciate the comment. It was a great trip and great place for the drone! Safe travels :)
Beautiful well done video. Best wishes. I’m looking fwd to camping for the first time w my family thank you
We hope you guys have a great time camping, its a lot of fun for the family. Thanks so much for watching and leaving a comment !
Magificent video that I haven't even gotten to watch entirely so far. It's a beautiful area with a lot to offer. The problem is that it doesn't attract the best crowds. Many people come in large groups and blast loud music all night long, invade campsites and leave loads of trash. The Fairview campground is rough for people with tents due to all these large rocks that are embedded in the ground. So Limestone is better for tents, but the crowds there (especially on weekends) are something else. No camp host either.
Thanks for the comment ! That's some grreat information you shared. We got the impression this might appeal to the party crowd but we didn't witness much during our stay. I could see how tent camping would be tough in fairview for sure - lots of rocks indeed! Thanks again for watching and for sharing the helpful comment - happy camping!
I go up to Lake Isabella quite often. But I go up through Walker Pass. I can't believe you pulled a trailer through the Kern River Canyon. That is one scary road. Did you know that the original site of the town of Kerville was located about 7 miles downstream to the East? The new damn forced them to move to the current location in the 1950s. When the water is low you can visit the old site and see all of the old foundations. Also, old Kernville was a popular site for making old movies. Many old-time movie stars frequented the area for the purpose of making Western movies. The area is now under 20 feet of water because of the extremely wet winter. It will be high and dry again by the end of next summer.
Thanks for the helpful comment - that is some great information! I did hear that the town had been relocated during the Dam construction, but I didn't know the details (now I do ! ). Yeah the drive up the canyon wasn't great but given we were coming from the west it seemed to make sense. We have done some pretty tight roads in the past and this definitely ranked up there with the worst of them (driving down the 89 from Prescott was memorable too) . This is a great area and we will try to get back at least once a year. Thanks again for watching and also for the very informative comment - we really appreciate that! Save travels :)
Hello to you both. Hope you are both doing well..
It was great to see you back on the road. Thank you for sharing your trip to the Kern River and Lake Isabella. The water levels were so nice to see so full. Me and my husband and I would go to the kern River in March. It was cold and beautiful. We would stay at a beautiful campground , with partial hookups, looking out our back window with the river flowing. My husband loved the jets flying over. The video you did on the waterfall was great, itwas si pretty, thank you Dang you did a fantastic job videoing it. Thank you, something we could never see without you. Plus, your audio is always the best with such get information. We would drive through the 14 to 395 going and then turn left. Little easier drive with our trailer. Thank you both again. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, and see you next time.
God Bless you and your family.
Hi Martha, good to hear from you again! Thanks for the lovely and encouraging comment. I'm glad we could help you revisit this area with us. Thanks again for the support, and God Bless you and yours as well!
Enjoyed this video and this trip a whole lot. Your opening drive and the music choice was great! Thought your first camping spot was great and liked the footage of the small waterfalls. That burger looked amazing we would have to stop in as well wow looked so good! That water flow was crazy footage it did look dangerous wonder if thats why you saw all the sheriffs. That was a fantastic campsite I think you said Camp 9 looked really nice. Once again fantastic drone footage looked like a beautiful place. As always your narration and tour were spot on well done!
It was a good time - the weather was pretty nice - it can get hot up there at that time of year. If you guys go there I think you can hit Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks too - they are just an hour or so away. Thanks as always for your support -we really appreciate it!
Home sweet home! I highly recommend the food at Mc Nally's.
You are blessed to call that home ! We really wanted to have a full dinner at Mc Nally's it looked so good but due to timing we had to settle for the burgers - but they were awesome too!. Thanks for the comment :)
@@bobanddangsjourney And they recently opened another location in downtown Kernville!
Location in Kernville is just a burger stand but they do sell some other stuff like hot dogs, chilli cheese fries and chilli cheese burgers, breakfast burritos etc but the last time I had the breakfast burrito will be my last 🤮
@Forestwidow oh man... Sorry to hear that. I've been down that path before... The burgers we had up the canyon were great. Thanks for the comment!
We were in the area this year also for the first time. The water flow was incredible. We stayed at Redwood Meadow Campground (Sequoia National Forest) across the road from Trail of 100 Giants. The campground has size limitations, so check before visiting.The trail wanders through a beautiful giant sequoia grove which is part of the Sequoia National Monument. the trail is a shaded, easy walk through the grove. (The Giant Sequoia National Monument trail is located about 45 miles northwest of the Gateway, Kernville, in the Kern River Valley on the Hot Springs Ranger District. From Kernville, take State Mtn. 99 north to Johnsondale. Continue west on Mtn. 50 to the Western Divide Hwy. turn-off. Go two miles to the Redwood Meadow Campground. The trail is located across the road from the campground. Travel time from Kernville is about 1½ hours.) We also had to reroute on our way back to So CA when we hit the closed road.
Thanks for the great comment! We were considering heading to the national parks on this trip but we had been there a few years earlier so we opted for different terrain. But for folks traveling up here that have not seen the giant sequoias your information is super useful - thanks for sharing that. Hope to see you out there one of these days - safe travels :)
Great trip video! Awesome views! I have got to get there in the spring if possible. Thanks very much for sharing. Take care and continued great road trips!
Thanks for dropping by! Its was fun to spend time in this area, we are typically further north and on the east side of the sierras so this was a nice change. We would love to see you do a video of this area! Safe travels :)
You are welcome. I might be heading in that direction next year for the Balloon Fiesta in New Mexico. So maybe...
Beautiful video! Love all the info.
Thanks you so much! That means a lot to us coming from you :) Safe travels!
I just love your drone shots!
Thanks so much for the compliment - it was a great place to be droning for sure! Safe travels :)
OMG! @2:40, that's my sister!!!! What a coincidence!!!
Amazingly small world sometimes! Thanks for pointing it out to us❤️
@@bobanddangsjourney great channel btw… unbelievable high quality videos along with awesome and useful content. You and your lady are definitely doing it RIGHT!!! Good for you guys, hope your RUclips channel is prosperous!!! Much love and thanks!!!
Great job on that drone footage, looks amazing. thumbs up 👍. Cheers Joe 😊
Thanks Joe - we really appreciate your viewership. Hope to meet up with you one of these days! Safe travels :)
Your very welcome, always my pleasure. Yes, meeting up one day would be fun. Cheers Joe 😊
Beautiful waterfall!! Love your style of video!! Always exciting to see your campsite for the first time!! Hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving!!
Yes that waterfall was a surprise for us - we were just exploring and had no idea where we were going. Got lucky indeed! Thanks for the nice comment and wishing you a great thanksgiving as well!
We would love to camp there!
Thanks for the comment - it was great - you should!
We definitely need to explore the Kern River more, we were looking for boondocking in that area and we did check out Lake Isabella in the spring and it was snowing haha. We need to go back for sure, such a beautiful area! Thanks for showing and we love your commentary along the way.
Those Drone shots over the 4 Falls were amazing! Great skills and props to Dang for navigating that viewpoint and piloting with no crashes 💥💪
Yes its a pretty place, the boondocking spots we covered later in the video look pretty good, when we go back we will probably stay at one of those. I think you might able to boondock off of some of the roads leading off Sherman pass road - we saw a very nice spot up near where we got the flower shots - would not fit for us but should be perfect for a van. Would need to check out whether its okay, but we did see evidence that others had used it for that purpose. Safe travels and hope to see you out there on the road one of these days!
@@VanDoghies Hi there! Dang here, appreciate your comment! Honestly, that flight had my nerves on edge. It was a bit scary, having to rely on drone technology and muscle memory. Likewise, your drone shots are fantastic too! I hope our paths will cross on the road sometime! 😀
Yes would love to compare notes on Drone tips and tricks. Love your work!!!@@Sawitree_Crowe
Just found you guys. Amazing drone footage! Really enjoyed all the photography and drone work. Beautiful scenery! New subscriber. -Michelle
Thank you! Yes it was a great place to have a drone and to film in general - we look forward to going back. Thanks for watching and leaving the comment! Safe travels :)
Thanks for the info
Glad it helped!
8:14. Those weren't Hawks. They're buzzards.
Interesting - when they were closer to us they looked very similar to the hawks we have around our house - which is why I thought they were. Thanks for the correction!
We always stayed at Camp 9 lower levels, sadly it’s under water now, recommend any other group sites at lake Isabella?
We are not experts in this area but we have stayed at auxiliary dam and that was dispersed camping on the beach near the dam. We saw quite a few groups camping there. Good luck and thanks for watching!
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3:07 It’s not aluminum FOILage. It’s pronounced FOLiage.
Thanks for the correction, i always mispronounce that word - not sure why - maybe I'm trying to 'Americanize' it :)
Hello, it's pronounced Tu-lare-ee.
Thank you for the correction!
fancy talking
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