American Auto Trail-Westside Highway (Maricopa to McKittrick CA)

This American auto trail explores California Highway 33, from Maricopa north to McKittrick, along the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. For more of our Auto Trails and Slow Travels guides, available in print or eBook format, use one of the links below: Amazon Lulu Press Follow us on Twitter (X) for video posts or visit our webpage at www.autotrails.net . You can also support this channel by buying me a coffee at the link below: Buy Me A Coffee Camera: Sony Active Camera FDR-X3000 Vehicle: Avis Rental 2026 Chevrolet Trailblazer Image Credits: Lakeview Gusher No. 1 (Kern County Historical Society - https://kernhistoricalsociety.org/lak...) Maricopa Postcard (Michael J. Semas - https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=2...) Music Credits: Chubs/Quincas Moreira Plenty Step/Freedom Trail Studio Highway One/Steve Adams Blue Macaw/Quincas Moreira Muffled Tines/roljui Waterfall/Aakash Gandhi Wager with Angels/Nathan Moore Fresh Fallen Snow/Chris Haugen Ghosts of California/Wes Hutchinson Playdate/The Great North Sound Society Map Credit: © OpenStreetMap contributors Many map images are courtesy of: David Rumsey Map Collection Endnotes: 1) California, A Guide to the Golden State; Hastings House, New York; 1939 2) Morgan, Wallace; History of Kern County, California; Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1914; https://www.google.com/books/edition/... 3) History of Kern County, California, Volume 2; S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1929; https://www.google.com/books/edition/... 4) History of Kern County, California, Volume 1; S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1929; https://www.google.com/books/edition/... 5) “California State Route 33 and legacy of US Route 399 on the Maricopa-Ventura Highway”; Gribblenation; August 20, 2021; https://www.gribblenation.org/2018/07... 6) Hillinger, Charles; “’You Can Kiss Fellows Goodby’: A Company Town is Fading Away as Oil Rigs Replace the Houses and Residents Lament Their Fate”; Los Angeles Times; December 28, 1988; https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...