Desert Spring is a former settlement in Kern County, California in the Fremont Valley, south of Red Rock Canyon State Park.

[1] The place, with natural springs, was important as a source of freshwater to the Native Americans, explorers, prospectors, and others in the Mojave Desert.

[1] Visitors included Joseph R. Walker in 1834, John C. Fremont in 1844, and migrants entering California in 1850 who had used the El Paso Range route.

[2] Later in the 19th century the water source was used by "ore freighters and prospectors".

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