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Apple Valley is an incorporated town in the Victor Valley of San Bernardino County, California, United States. Its population was 75,791 as of the 2020 United States census. The town is east of and adjoining to the neighboring cities of Victorville and Hesperia, 35 miles (56 km) south of Barstow, and 49 miles (79 km) north of San Bernardino through the Cajon Pass. It was incorporated on November 14, 1988, and is one of the 22 incorporated municipalities in California that use "town" in their names instead of "city".

Bell Mountain is a desert mountain, with summit and elevation of 3,897 feet (1,188 m), in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. It is located north of Apple Valley, in San Bernardino County.

The Apple Valley Inn was a hotel and restaurant established in Apple Valley, California, to help developer Newton T. Bass attract wealthy land buyers to the southern California desert town. Bass and partner Bernard "Bud" Westlund owned Apple Valley Ranchos Land Development Co. The inn, which opened on Thanksgiving Day 1948, is a landmark in the community and a prominent feature in the history of Apple Valley. The inn was a popular vacation destination for Hollywood celebrities during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Frequent visitors included notable icons Bob Hope, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne and Richard Nixon in its heyday. Entertainment for guests included such performers as cowgirl celebrity and famous trick roper, Texas Rose Bascom. Jack Rogers, famed Country Western Singer, guitarist, and prolific composer, was frequently performing at the Inn during the sixties. He was a close friend and compatriot of “Newt” (the owner), Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Bob Hope, etc. Richard Nixon took a liking to Jack and his music and would go into the bar at night and each night request Jack play and sing “El Paso” which of course he accommodated. The inn originally allowed only white Christians as patrons. Apple Valley Ranchos Land established racial policies in its covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs) dated Feb 14, 1946. The restrictions were increasingly relaxed throughout the 1950s as GI Bill money was used to purchase property. In 1954, screenwriter and producer Roger Corman set part of his movie Highway Dragnet at the inn with extensive shots of the lobby, pool and exterior scenes. In 1956, director Douglas Sirk and producer Ross Hunter utilized the same features as the 'Palm Valley Inn' in the film There's Always Tomorrow. In 1965, movie stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and their family became residents of Apple Valley. Roy Rogers leased the inn and restaurant, which was then renamed Roy Rogers' Apple Valley Inn. The Outdoor Steak Fry and the Roy Rogers' Riding Stables, with its haywagon rides and horseback riding, were two popular enterprises attached to the inn. Mel Marion and then Billy Bascom managed the stables. Cowboy artist Earl Bascom and his artist son John worked there from time to time. Roy Rogers' personal horse, Trigger Junior, was frequently boarded at the riding stables. After many successful years, the inn closed to the public in 1987. It was purchased by the Lakritz Partnership in November 2003 and restored.

KIXW (960 kHz "Talk 960") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Apple Valley, California. It broadcasts a talk radio format and is owned by El Dorado Broadcasters. It calls itself "The High Desert's Talk Station". The studios and offices are on Hesperia Road in Victorville. By day, KIXW is powered at 5,000 watts non-directional. At night, to protect other stations on 960 AM from interference, it reduces power to 20 watts. The transmitter is off Rincon Road in Apple Valley.

Bell Mountain is an unincorporated community in the Victor Valley region of the Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, southern California. It is north of Apple Valley, east of Interstate 15, and 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Victorville. The town lies at 3,082 feet above sea level on Dale Evans Parkway. A post office was established in the community in 1953 but it was discontinued three years later.

The Lewis Center for Educational Research (LCER) is an educational organization located in Apple Valley, California. It operates two charter schools: the Academy for Academic Excellence in Apple Valley, and the Norton Science and Language Academy in San Bernardino.

The Academy for Academic Excellence (AAE) is a K-12 public charter school based in Apple Valley, California. It is part of the Lewis Center for Educational Research (LCER), named for a major supporter, then Congressman Jerry Lewis. The school was first chartered in 1997 by the Apple Valley Unified School District. LCER currently operates two TK-12 campuses - the Mojave River Campus in Apple Valley, and the Norton Science and Language Academy in San Bernardino, California.

Mojave Narrows Park is a regional park in San Bernardino County, California, near Victorville. It features a 50-acre (20 ha) fishing lake and hiking trails. Once described as "one of Southern California's least-known parks," it is a location where the typically subterranean Mojave River flows above ground. The river rises out of a "long gorge with granite walls" near the park's northern boundary. As described by the Los Angeles Times, "the now-you-see it, now-you-don't Mojave River comes to a rocky gate near Victorville called Mojave Narrows. Here the water comes to the surface in lakes, sloughs and green pastures." The section of the park near the river is "an inviting expanse of green meadows, cottonwoods, willow thickets, and year-round water in river channels, creeks, bogs, ponds, and two small lakes." Over 250 species of birds have been observed at the park, up from 125 species 50 years ago. Beavers have been periodically sighted in the park since its establishment up to the present day. The park permits RV camping and tent camping at designated locations. Los Angeles-bound BNSF Railway freight trains "frequently rumble past," crossing over bridges on the western boundary of the park. The Santa Fe Railroad pioneered a train route named Frost through Mojave Narrows to the west in 1885. In antiquity, the "oasis" was visited by Native Americans, later by migrant travelers from back east. The land for the park, previously called North Verde Ranch and then Kemper Campbell Ranch, was purchased by San Bernardino County in the late 1960s. A 1973 newspaper "trip of the week" feature described the state of the park at that time: "Ranch guests are housed in adobes that seem to grow out of the hillside. The informal ranch life includes swimming, tennis, bass fishing, hiking and riding on trails…The late afternoon and evening views are gorgeous over the crumpled Narrows rocks, pale desert mountains and snowy San Bernardinos in the distance."

Victor Valley is a future high-speed rail station of Brightline West, running to Las Vegas Boulevard in the Las Vegas Valley and south to Rancho Cucamonga. The station will be at the north end of the town of Apple Valley adjacent to Interstate 15 at Dale Evans Parkway. Passenger platforms will be in the median of I-15 and accessed via walkway under the northbound lanes of the highway. Construction permits were acquired in March 2020 by Brightline. The area will include a maintenance facility. The site also sits near existing freight rail tracks with existing Amtrak Southwest Chief services to Chicago and Los Angeles and future connections are possible with the location of both sites.

Spring Valley Lake is a census-designated place in the Victor Valley of the Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California. It is located in Victorville on the Mojave River.

Victorville is a city in Victor Valley in San Bernardino County, California. Its population as of the 2020 census was 134,810.Victorville is the principal city of a Victor Valley–based urban area defined by the United States Census Bureau: the Victorville–Hesperia–Apple Valley urban area had a population of 355,816 as of the 2020 census, making it the 117th largest in the United States.

The Victor Valley Transportation Center, also known as Victorville station, is an intermodal transit center in Victorville, California that is served by Amtrak, Greyhound Lines, and the Victor Valley Transit Authority. The center also serves as a park and ride facility for carpooling commuters. The station building is open during service hours, with a waiting area and restrooms, but is locked on weekends.