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Time: January 14, 2011 at 6pm to January 16, 2011 at 7pm
Location: By the London Bridge
City/Town: Lake Havasu, Arizona
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Event Type: campout
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They'd be campgrounds. There are some commercial campgrounds in Tehachapi, although I'm pretty sure I remember some BLM land around there that had campsites (when I rolled through there last time at night, the fog was so dense that I could barely see the road, let alone a campground that I'd never been to before, so I elected to "boondock it" that time).
As for Barstow, there was a campground near there that I stayed at last year:
http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/barstow/basin.html
I'd probably go there again, unless there was another campground available.
My alternative to a truck stop in Barstow would be a closed-down mall on the eastern edge of town where there are a lot of overnight stayers (safety in numbers, you know). I've stayed there before a couple of times. It's a little quieter than the truck stops, and convenient to restaurants and stores.
http://www.freecampgrounds.com/detail.aspx?id=3213
As for motels, they're easy to find in Barstow and Mojave. I've always stayed in the Motel 6 when traveling through there, as they seemed to be the cheapest of the national chains.
OK, I did a little more research.
I was wrong about there being a BLM park around Tehachapi. But there are two others. One is the Tehachapi Mountain Park, run by the county and costing $14/night (with no two-vehicle rate):
http://www.co.kern.ca.us/parks/tehachapi.asp
the other is the Brite Valley Aquatic Recreation Area, run by the Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Parks District, which wants $15/night, and the number of permissible vehicles isn't specified:
http://www.tvrpd.org/facilities/brite-lake.html
The latter is used a lot by the fishing crowd, but I doubt that either of them would be crowded mid-week over the winter.
I agree about the valley fog, but it hasn't been a factor in any of the dozen-plus times I've driven that route over the past fifteen years or so. The only serious fog I ever encountered was last winter in Tehachapi, and that was at 4000 feet.
By the way, Tehachapi Mountain Park is at 8000 feet, which means that you've got 4000' to climb once you get to Tehachapi.(Wikipedia says that the name Tehachapi comes from a local Indian phrase meaning "hard climb.") The Brite Valley site doesn't list an elevation, but it looks like it's about the same as the town.
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