Bitterwater Creek (Buena Vista Lake)
 Bitterwater Creek formerly Arroyo de Amargosa (Bitter Creek) is a stream with its source just southwest of the southern extreme of the Elkhorn Hills just west of and inside the San Luis Obispo County boundary 6.3 miles southwest of Maricopa California. The creek flows northwest to dissipate in the dry lake bed of Buena Vista Lake 3.7 miles north of Pentland Kern County California.