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Virtual Guidebook to
The San Joaquin Valley
San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare, and Kern Counties, California

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Peach blossoms near Selma.

Table of Contents
(listed from northwest to southeast)

San Joaquin County (1)
Stanislaus County (2)
Merced and U.C. Merced (5)
Merced County (4)
Madera County (1)
Fresno County (9)
West Side San Joaquin Valley (6)
Kings County (5)
Tulare County (2)
Kern County (4)
The West-Side Oil Fields (5)
Grapevine to Tejon Pass (5)

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Complete Listing (see also the Fullscreen versions)
listed from northwest to southeast

San Joaquin County
Wild grapevines in riparian forest, Caswell State Park.
Stanislaus County
The Modesto Arch "Water, Wealth, Contentment, Health, "I" Street at 9th.
The Southern Pacific station and the Modesto Transportation Center.
Merced and U.C. Merced
Mainzer Theater, Main and "N" Streets, Merced.
Bob Hart Square, Main and Canal Streets, Merced.
Merced Irrigation District canal and UC Merced under construction.
Swimming beach and fishing pier, Lake Yosemite, near Merced.
Kiwanis picnic area at Lake Yosemite, near Merced.
Merced County
Merced River, high water, McConnel State Recreation Area, near Delhi.
Picking tomatoes, near Planada.
Picking peaches, Adwal and Son orchard, between Merced and Planada.
Pistachio orchard, east of Planada.
Madera County
The Pilot truckstop at Madera on Highway 99.
Fresno County
Tule fog in the vineyards east of Fresno.
Orange grove and vineyard, Indianola Road near Fresno.
Fruit trees in bloom, near Sanger.
Fruit orchard in bloom, nearSanger, east of Fresno.
The Friant-Kern Canal, near Navelencia, Fresno County.
On the Orange Blossom Trail, Citrus Cove.
Peach orchard in bloom, near Selma.
Downtown Kingburg, the "Swedish" village.
A cannery along the railroad tracks, Kingsburg.
West Side San Joaquin
Orestimba Viewpoint on Interstate 5, near Newman.
The California Aqueduct, near Los Baños.
The Los Baños Wildlife Area.
A dried out wetland in summer, Los Baños Wildlife Area.
An onion field near Huron.
Great Valley grassland, near Avenal.
Kings County
Kings County Courthouse, Hanford.
Courthouse Square in Hanford, Kings County.
Tulare Lake, reborn after the January floods of 1997.
Giant siphons at the edge of the Tulare Basin, near Alpaugh.
The railway depot in Corcoran.
Tulare County
The snow-capped Sierra Nevada seen from the valley floor near Visalia.
Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park.
Kern County
Interstate Five, on the west side of the valley.
The tule elk was saved from near extinction in this modest reserve near Tupman.
Irrigation siphons in the vast cotton fields of the west side.
An oil well in an orchard, west of Maricopa.
The West-Side Oil Fields
The Elk Hills oil field, part of the Naval Petroleum Reserve.
The West Kern Oil Museum in Taft.
Interesting junk on the back lot at the West Kern Oil Museum.
Site of the Lakeview Gusher, greatest runaway oil well of all time.
In the crater left by the Lakeview Gusher of 1910.
Grapevine to Tejon Pass
Interstate 5 north of Wind Gap.
Grapevine, at the north base of Tejon Pass.
Rose Station, at the mouth of Grapevine Canyon.
"The Grapevine", north approach to Tejon Pass, in Grapevine Canyon.
Fort Tejon, strategically located in Tejon Pass at the top of Grapevine Canyon.
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