Discover tranquility at the Central Park at Mill Creek in Bakersfield. Spend a day in the park, surrounded by trees and three million pounds of boulders from the Kern River. The park features stamp concrete walkways, lined with turn-of-the-century themed fixtures, and a covered pedestrian bridge crossing over a babbling brook.
Conduct your evening out at the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra. Enjoy listening to the sweeping sounds of the professional 80 member orchestra under the direction of Maestro John Farrer, as it performs classical music masterpieces written by the musical greats. Productions have included Beethoven's Overture to Egmont, Brahms Symphony No. 4 and Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.
Sharktooth Hill is famous for million year-old fossils, and many of them are on display at the Buena Vista Museum in Bakersfield. The highlight of the collection is a five star skeletal fossil that is the 10,000,000-year-old ancestor of today's flipper-footed marine mammal friends, the seal, sea lions, and walruses.
Get your ticket to the hottest live entertainment and sports action in downtown Bakersfield at the Rabobank Arena. Take your seat with 10,000 of your closest neighbors in front of a stage that hosts live performances from Disney on Ice to Judaist Priest, and the LA Lakers versus the LA Clippers.