Mojave is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Kern County, California, within the United States. Situated in the western region of the Mojave Desert, it lies below and east of Oak Creek Pass and the Tehachapi Mountains at an elevation of 2,762 feet. The town is positioned fifty miles southeast of Bakersfield and one hundred miles north of Los Angeles, serving as a key point along the Pacific Crest Trail.