California City is an incorporated city in Kern County, California, having been legally established in 1965. It is also the town that almost didn't happen. Its original designers decided to build a planned city and bought land, subdividing it into individual lots; however, the activity of developing the land for construction led to increased dust storms which scared prospective buyers away. Growth was slow and the people did finally come, settling to the south of the original intended site. Today, aerial views of the city can see the housing that was built and a grid of roadwork to the north, with empty lots and no building structures of any kind. It has become home to a PGA level golf course and a nesting ground for birds flying north or south. A California City RV rental can be your photography blind for capturing professional looking photos of the birds en route.