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The Death Valley Visitor's Guide DDAee Visitors Gaauide To tthh VVaalllleeyy 11th Edition Websites: Armargosa Conservancy, Shoshone, www.armargosaconservancy.org Death Valley Chamber of Commerce, www.deathvalleychamber.org Death Valley National Park, www.nps.gov/deva Shoshone Village, Shoshone, www.shoshonevillage.com Stovepipe Wells Village, www.stovepipewells.com Panamint Springs Resort, www.panamintsprings.com Death Valley Natural History Association, www.dvnha.org Death Valley Conservancy, www.dvconservancy.org Direct Results Media, Inc. Direct Results Media, Inc. Business Cards Rodney Preul Table of Contents Sales Associate Stunning Sights and Scenes Page 4 Extraordinary Tecopa and Shos3.5x2hone Page 6 6000 Bel Aire Way Cell: 760-382-1640 Borax Wagons Find a New Home Page 8 Bakersfield, CA 93301 [email protected] Death Valley Fun Facts Page 10 Tecopa’s Restaurant Renaissance Page 11 The 2018 Death Valley Visitor Guide is produced by the Lone Pine Chamber Death Valley’s Dark Sky Page 15 of Commerce, the Death Valley Chamber of Commerce, and the The Mysterious Race Track Page 16 County of Inyo. The contents do not necessarily reflect the views of the Renovations CDirectreate An O Resultsasis Media, Inc.Page 17 Direct Results Media, Inc. Lone Pine Chamber of Commerce, the Death Valley Chamber of Commerce, Death Valley National 20 Mule Team Canyon Page 18 Park, or the County of Inyo. (Except for our view that Death Valley is a Dante’s ‘Jaw-Dropping’ VieJerryw Elford Page 19 Robert Asianian spectacular place to visit. We will all definitely own that one.) Attractions At A Glance Sales Associate Page 20 Sales Manager Direct Results Media, Inc. Direct Results Media, Inc. 6000 Bel Aire Way Cell: 661-972-3596 6000 Bel Aire Way Cell: 760-382-1800 Business Cards Bakersfield, CARodney 93301 Preul [email protected] Bakersfield, CA 93301 [email protected] Sales Associate 2 3.5x2 Death Valley Vistiors Guide • 11th Edition 6000 Bel Aire Way Cell: 760-382-1640 Bakersfield, CA 93301 [email protected] Direct Results Media, Inc. Direct Results Media, Inc. Jerry Elford Robert Asianian Sales Associate Sales Manager 6000 Bel Aire Way Cell: 661-972-3596 6000 Bel Aire Way Cell: 760-382-1800 Bakersfield, CA 93301 [email protected] Bakersfield, CA 93301 [email protected] Death Valley Vistiors Guide • 11th Edition 3 Stunning Sights and Scenes in Death Valley eath Valley contains below sea level. The scene is south of Furnace Creek. Peak can be seen in the millions of acres of much more than an Dantes View distance as well as the Dwild and scenic land. elevation marker. Seeps Located at an elevation of soaring peaks of the Funeral Tucked into that sprawling create small pools of water 5,758 feet directly above the Range. Zabriskie Point is a landscape are more than a that dramatically reflect the Badwater Basin is Dante’s favorite of photographers, few truly stunning sights, as nearby black mountains. View. This extremely scenic providing perfect outlined below. Telescope Peak, the view spot provides vistas of opportunities at sunrise and Badwater Basin highest point in Death almost all of Death Valley. sunset. Located 2 ½ miles Badwater is the site of the Valley looms majestically, One can look straight down east of Furnace Creek. lowest place on land in 11,000 feet above and across to the Badwater Basin and Golden Canyon North America, at 282 feet the valley. Located 17 miles directly across to the Penetrating deep into Panamint Mountains and Death Valley’s Black Telescope Peak. Far off to Mountains is aptly named the west, are seen the Sierra Golden Canyon. Especially Nevada Mountains, and to in the morning light, the the east, numerous desert canyon walls glow magically mountain ranges of Nevada. with a flaxen hue. Golden Located 25 miles east and Canyon is a hike, but one south of Furnace Creek. The can get an intimate feel for it last few miles of roadway are by walking just a few feet steep and narrow. past its mouth. More Zabriskie Point adventurous trekkers can This viewpoint is accessed choose among a number of by a short drive and a steep longer hikes. Located two short walk on a paved trail. miles south of Furnace The scene overlooks the Creek. beautifully eroded and colorful hills referred to as The sprawling Mesquite Sand Dunes, just outside of Stovepipe Wells Village. the badlands. Telescope CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 WWesternestern GatewayGateway toto DeathDeath ValleyValley NationalNational ParkPark Three Diamond Award All Amenities • Free High Speed Intteeernetrnet Center of Town • Pool & Spa Golf • Senior Discounts • Smoke FFrerreeee Maajorjor CCreditredit CCardsards The Grill Restaurant Adjacent FFamilFamilyFaamily OOwnedwned & OOperatedpeeratedrated SSinceince 11957957 310 South Main Street Lone Pine, CA 4 Death Valley Vistiors Guide • 11th Edition Death Valley Scenes CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 Salt Creek visitors can take a steep path One of the few places on to the bottom (and back up), the actual floor of Death walk around its rim and Valley where water flows, simply stand at the edge of Salt Creek meanders along the parking area and take in the surface on and off for the overwhelming scene. several miles. This unique Located 57 miles north of environment also provides Furnace Creek. The last five habitat for Death Valley’s miles are on a narrow only native species of fish, roadway. the Desert Pupfish. Visitors Wildrose Charcoal Kilns can follow a wooden The Death Valley area has boardwalk along the banks a rich mining history. Silver, of this desert treasure on a gold, borax and talc are just self-guided half mile nature come of the minerals that walk. Located 13 ½ miles have been mined here. The Golden Canyon lives up to its name. Shown is the hiking trail north of Furnace Creek, then ten Wildrose Charcoal Kilns through the canyon and Manley Beacon. a one mile graded dirt road. are located at 7000 feet high DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK PHOTO Mesquite Sand Dunes up in the Panamint Just a few miles west of Mountains in a Pinion Pine Stovepipe Wells Village lies Forest. These nearly perfect one of Death Valley’s most pieces of architecture were popular attractions, the built in 1877 to produce Mesquite Sand Dunes. charcoal for nearby silver Covering over 14 square smelters. About 62 miles miles, the dunes provide from Furnace Creek, the last some of the most dramatic three miles on a graded dirt scenery in the park. Sunrise road. Artist Drive and sunset are both great This scenic one-way, semi- times to catch just the right loop paved road twists, shot. Watch for the signed winds, climbs and dips its turnout about 23 miles way through some of the north and west of Furnace most colorful scenery in Creek. Death Valley. Highlight of Ubehebe Crater the nine mile trip is the Most visitors are taken Artist Pallate, where hues of aback when they approach greens, purples, oranges, the yawning expanse of browns and yellows blend Ubehebe Crater for the first together in a kaleidoscope of time. This “Maar” Volcano color. Entrance to Artist was created by a steam Drive is located about 10 explosion as recent as only miles south of Furnace 300 years ago. 600’ deep Creek. Badwater Basin is the lowest spot in North America, resting at and over a half mile across, 282 feet below sea level. DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK PHOTO Death Valley Vistiors Guide • 11th Edition 5 Extraordinary Experiences await in Tecopa and Shoshone By Robin Flinchum and Shoshone into arts and ecotourism remodeled trailers and tipis, with destinations in their own right. everything designed to emphasize the ith an inventive emphasis on Extraordinary lodging opportunities land itself, to lead the visitor outside, combining creature comforts abound here, from a livable art and to “have a tactile experience.” Wand immersive outdoor ad - installation to an upscale motel at the Also in Tecopa, tucked away on the ventures, local entrepreneurs are turn - edge of a hidden oasis, from tipis to edge of town where the scattered ing the gateway communities of Tecopa tiny camping cabins, the emphasis is homes give way to the open sweep of on bringing visitors into the natural the desert, is Villa Anita. Here an world. extraordinary collection of repurposed Cynthia Keinitz, proprietor of and recycled items, sculpted onto an Cynthia’s Safaris and Desert Lodging old railroad tie cabin, take form as a in Tecopa, says her passion is sharing livable art installation. Part art gallery, the transformative effect of part museum, part educational retreat experiencing the desert’s beauty up and bed and breakfast, Villa Anita close. “I want to encourage people to “provides an artistic experience from let it work its magic on them,” she says, which to really enjoy the isolation of and she puts in a great deal of creative the desert,” says David Aaron Smith, effort behind the scenes to make sure resident artist and curatorial partner. her guests are comfortable while they For the past six years the owners of explore. Villa Anita, a community of artists and The recently remodeled Shoshone Inn of - Keinitz specializes in group visionaries, have continually added to fers a touch of comfort in the desert. adventures and personally tailors the it so that the original cabin now only PHOTO BY ROBIN FLINCHUM stay to suit the needs of the group. appears in glimpses. The structure is a Options for her visitors include guided living work of art, sometimes indoor hiking trips, off-road safaris in a fleet and sometimes outdoor, wending of side-by-side all-terrain vehicles kept through sheltered gardens, cozy on the premises, star gazing with sleeping rooms, and giant sculptures. astronomers and rock walks with Some areas are sheltered by billowy geologists.
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