DON QUIXOTE Walker Basin Rd., Caliente, CA 93518
You can either go 5 North and then 58 East or 14 North and then 58 West. These directions are for the 5 North.
5 North towards Bakersfield.
After you come down the hill (Grapevine), there is a sign which says, Arvin Next Right.
Exit Laval Road EAST Towards Arvin. At the end of the exit ramp there is a Burger King/Pizza Hut/etc. place.
You will be on Wheeler Ridge Road. Stay on Wheeler Ridge Road for 16.3 miles, then turn right on Bear Mountain Road (Route 223) towards Arvin.
Go straight through Arvin on 223 for about 9 miles and you will pass Tower Line Road--keep going until you leave Arvin and you will start to climb a very small hill. Stay straight for about 7 more miles and descend the very small hill, and then you will see a sign which says Highway 58 EAST toward Mojave. Take a right (going east) onto Highway 58 towards Mojave, and get in the left hand lane, go about 1.2 miles and take the left hand turn (exit) towards Caliente. Just before the left, you'll see a sign which says, "Caliente 2 miles" and you want to take the exit which goes towards Caliente.
(As soon as you make the left, if you look to your right, you'll see a sign on the top of the hill which says Cowboy Country.) Go straight for about 5 miles (over the first set of railroad tracks), and you will pass the Caliente Disposal on the left, the Caliente Post office on the right (hard to notice), over the second set of railroad tracks, past the Caliente School sign, past the Toll House Ranch (green) until you get to a sign which has a Y on it, denoting a fork in the road.
(There is another sign next to it which says Bar and Grill and Cowboy Memorial straight ahead) this is important, because you need to turn LEFT, up the hill--the road is called Caliente Bodfish.***PLEASE SEE BELOW From the left turn, you will go up the winding hill and down the winding hill about 9.5 miles, until you pass a sign (at the bottom) which says Rankin Ranch. Just a little further (30'), there is a corner. At that corner, go right onto Walker Basin Road (Abandon Caliente Bodfish and go on Walker Basin Road). Stay on Walker Basin Road for about 2.7 miles, until you dead end into Walker Basin Road. (Junction of Walker Basin Road and Walker Basin Road). At the dead end, look to your right, and you will see the windmill and the house. Go right (east) on Walker Basin Rd. and it's the first house on the right.