[2] For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Pine Mountain Club as a census-designated place (CDP).

The settlement lies between Apache Saddle and Pinon Pines Estates along Mil Potrero Highway.

[3] The first announcement was made from Houston, Texas, in April of that year when the company said it would develop "more than 1.1 million acres of land in Arizona and Southern California.

[6] About half that acreage was to be in Kern County, where the projects would include the residential development of 6,500 acres surrounding the then-new California State College near Bakersfield and 3,200 acres in the Los Padres National Forest, also mostly for residences (Pine Mountain Club).

"[9] Adjacent to the clubhouse will be a nine-hole executive golf course[,] and other recreational facilities are a heated swimming pool, archery range, volleyball and basketball courts, a lake stocked with fish and a community barbecue area.

[9]Tenneco West President Sommerhalder said the club was believed to be among the largest all-electric family recreational resorts in California.

[7] At the time of the announcement in 1971, "four deep wells" had already been sunk and an "extensive network of reservoirs and pipelines" laid, with a filtration plant near the commercial center.

"[9] Eight months after the opening, seventy-nine percent of the 1,309 purchasers indicated in a survey that construction of a vacation home was the prime reason for buying a lot and 43% of that group said they intended to start building during 1972.

[10] The development's sixth and final section, on a plateau some thousand feet higher than the clubhouse, went on sale in March 1973.

John E. Sommerhalder, the company president, said the road opened up "a large segment of the [Los Padres National] forest that, until now, has been almost inaccessible.

[13] By 1988, Pine Mountain Club had a small commercial district with about forty businesses, ranging from an Exxon gas station to a place called "Pheasants by Frank."

because there are so many people with weekend homes that the stores choose to stay open Saturday and Sunday.

"[14] On July 31, 2021, the community celebrated its fiftieth birthday with a barbecue picnic on blankets spread beneath the trees next to the golf course.

Three hundred eighteen households (29.9%) were made up of individuals, and 111 (10.5%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The PMC community is managed by the Pine Mountain Club Property Owners Association, Inc.,[17] which is governed by a nine-member volunteer board of directors[1] and a group of documents: the Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CC&R's [2]), bylaws, the association rules, and an Environmental Control (EC) code [3].

The association maintains several recreational facilities [4], including a nine-hole golf course, pool, clubhouse, and stables.

[19] Kern Regional Transit provides bus service Thursdays and Saturdays during the summer to Frazier Park, Gorman, Lake of the Woods, Lebec, and Pinon Pines.

[21] Black bears began commonly disturbing the community by breaking into homes and vehicles around 2014.