Golden Trout Creek is an approximately long tributary of the

Kern River The Kern River, previously Rio de San Felipe, later La Porciuncula, is an Endangered, Wild and Scenic river in the U.S. state of California, approximately long. It drains an area of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains northeast of Bakersfield ...

, flowing in northeastern

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. The creek drains an area of the High Sierra Nevada in the

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. Volcano Creek is a tributary of it.

Course

It starts near Cirque Peak and Siberian Pass as the confluence of several small streams in Big Whitney Meadow and flows south, turning west at the confluence of the South Fork. From there, it flows through the Golden Trout Creek Volcanic FieldUSGS Volcanic Hazards Program
/ref> at Little Whitney Meadow and joins the Kern River in Kern Canyon, about north of

Lake Isabella Lake Isabella also called Isabella Lake, is a reservoir in Kern County, California, United States created by the earthen Isabella Dam. It was formed in 1953 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Kern River at the junction of its two f ...

Ecology

California's state fish, the

Golden trout The California golden trout (''Oncorhynchus aguabonita or Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita''), is a species of trout native to California. The golden trout is normally found in the Golden Trout Creek (tributary to the Kern River), Volcano Creek (t ...

, are native to Golden Trout Creek. The high Volcano Falls located near the mouth of the creek prevents other trout species from the main Kern River from mixing with those in this creek.

References

Kern River Rivers of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Rivers of Tulare County, California Tulare Basin watershed Sequoia National Forest Rivers of Northern California Rivers of the Sierra Nevada in California {{California-river-stub

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