| Kern Lake | |
| Location: | San Joaquin Valley Kern County, California |
| Coords: | 35.1222°N -119.0562°W |
| Lake Type: | Flat |
| Inflow: | Kern River |
| Basin Countries: | United States |
| Elevation: | 282feet |
| Pushpin Map: | California#USA |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Location of Kern Lake in California, USA. |
Kern Lake, originally Laguna de los Tulares,[1] was the smallest of the three large lakes in the Tulare Basin, in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley of California.
It was the first of the lakes fed by the Kern River. Kern Lake is now a dry lake bed, due to agricultural diversion of the Kern River waters and the aquifer.[2]