Wheeler Ridge is an unincorporated community in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley, within Kern County, California.

[1] It is at the junction of the valley floor and the Wheeler Ridge landform of the Tehachapi Mountains.

The community is located at the Wheeler Ridge Interchange, the junction of State Route 99 and Interstate 5.

[2] Before the development of the Grapevine commercial district to the south on Interstate 5, Wheeler Ridge had the last services southbound on U.S. Route 99 and I−5 before the steep 3,000 feet (910 m) climb up Tejon Pass.

On April 16, 2005, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake on the White Wolf Fault struck near Wheeler Ridge.