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Death Valley Visitor Guide 1
National Park ServiceU. S. Department of the InteriorDeath Valley National Park
What’s Inside?
Park Rules ............................... 2
Park Information ...................... 3
What To See ............................ 4
Day Hikes & Backroads ............. 5
Park Map ........................... 6 & 7
Park Projects ............................ 8
Ranger Programs ..................... 9
Scotty’s Castle ........................ 10
Park Partners .......................... 11
Visitor Services ....................... 12
Sarah Craighead, SuperintendentDeath Valley National Park
Welcome to Death Valley!
Virtual Museum
The National Park Service (NPS) has launched a multimedia “Virtual Museum” exhibit highlighting hundreds of artifacts from Death Valley National Park’s museum collections. These items tell the stories of people drawn to this land of startling and stark beauty, scorching valleys, snow-capped peaks, borax mines, and the grandly furnished Scotty’s Castle. The Virtual Museum showcases artifacts, artwork, documents, photos, specimens, and more. There is a virtual tour of Scotty’s Castle with an organ music clip and “Teaching with Museum Collections,” which includes lesson plans for teachers.
The park’s Virtual Museum Exhibit is on-line at www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/deva/index.html. Death Valley Nation-al Park manages nearly one million museum objects, specimens, and archives. The majority of these collections are professionally stored and cared for at the Cow Creek Curatorial Facility and at Scotty’s Castle. For more information, please visit our website or call (760) 786-3200.
Fall 2011Visitor Guide
Please visit our newly renovated Furnace Creek Visitor Center. This important project, funded by entrance fee income, is leading us to have a lighter footprint in our desert home. Increased insulation, improved air conditioning systems, and solar panels that help us to generate our own power are all part of this project that allows us to be more sustainable in this harsh environment. The Visitor Center renovation, which started in November 2010, was finished earlier than anticipated allowing us to accommodate our growing number of visitors. Our park partner, Death Valley Natural His-tory Association, is quite happy to have a more comfortable space to offer a wider selection of books and items that you can take home with you to remind you of your Death Valley experience. The Visitor Center exhibits are still in production and are expected to be installed in the summer of 2012. In the meantime, take a look at our temporary exhib-its and watch the new park film, narrated by actor Donald Sutherland.
Death Valley seems to get busier each year, with barely a lull between our seasons. In 2010, visitation increased by about 15% and we expect one million visitors for the first time since 2001! We are excited that so many people are visiting our National Parks and hope that while you are here, you will take the time to enjoy a ranger program, gaze at an amaz- ing night sky, and look at the footprints of a tiny lizard left behind in the sand of the Mesquite Dunes. This is your Na- tional Park. Please take care of it and enjoy it.
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Park Rules
Many park rangers are federal law enforcement officers. They help pro-tect the park and its visitors by enforcing a wide range of federal, state and local regulations. You can help them by observing these laws:
y Obey the speed limit and other rules of the road. Helmets and seat-belts are required in Death Valley National Park.
y Stay out of closed areas. Mines, service roads, and other areas are closed for your safety or the protection of features therein.
y Let wild animals find their own food. They’re good at it and feed-ing them is against the law.
y Rocks, plants, animals, and historic objects in Death Valley are pro-tected just like in a museum. Vandalism and theft are prohibited.
y Keep your car on established roads. Unsightly tire tracks in the desert destroy fragile plants and wildlife and scar the land-scape for decades.
y Camp only in established campgrounds or in a permit-ted backcountry area. Check at a Ranger Station or Visitor Center for backcountry camp-ing information.
y It is illegal to discharge a firearm anywhere in Death Valley or to bring one into a Federal building.
y Keep pets on leash and close to roads or parking lots. Pets are not allowed on trails or in wilderness.
y Put garbage where it belongs. Litter in the desert spoils the land-scape for each person that follows behind you.
y Campfires are allowed in established firepits only. Gathering fire-wood is prohibited.
Rules to Live by in Your National Park
Damage caused by off-road driving
While visiting the White House, would you take a piece of silver-ware home for a keepsake? How about tearing off a piece of the Declaration of Independence? Or spray painting your name on the Statue of Liberty?
Believe it or not these acts of vandalism do happen in our national parks. Picking wildflowers, taking home stones or arrowheads as keepsakes, and defacing canyon walls with graffiti are all actions that degrade the parks for other visitors. In addition, it’s against the law.
Don’t Steal Our “Silverware”
Visiting any of our national parks is similar to visiting museums or art galleries. You certainly wouldn’t think of taking an artifact or paint-ing home from such places. Re-moving anything from our national parks means that other visitors will not be able to enjoy it. If each of the 275 million visitors took away a flower or a stone or anything from the parks they visit, they would leave behind empty landscapes.
Help protect America’s national parks by leaving everything in its place and not defacing the natural resources. Other park visitors and future generations will thank you.The Racetrack
Please stop at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center, Scotty’s Castle Visitor Center, Stovepipe Wells Ranger Station or at one of the automated fee machines placed throughout the park to pay the park entrance fee.
Personal Survival In a Land of Extremes
The main cause of death in Death Valley is single vehicle accidents.Cars destroyed by flash flood.
y Water: Drink at least one gallon (4 liters) of water per day to replace loss from perspiration. Carry plenty of extra drinking water in your car.
y Heat & Dehydration: If you feel dizzy, nauseous or get a headache, get out of the sun immediately and drink plenty of water. Dampen clothing to lower your body temperature. Heat and dehydration can kill.
y Hiking: Do not hike in the low elevations when temperatures are hot.
y Dangerous Creatures: Never place your hands or feet where you cannot see first. Rattlesnakes, scorpions or black widow spiders may be sheltered there.
y Mine Hazards: Do not enter mine tunnels or shafts. Mines may be unstable, have hidden shafts, pockets of bad air and poisonous gas. Stay Out Stay Alive.
y Flash Floods: Avoid canyons during rain storms and be prepared to move to higher ground. While driving, be alert for water running in washes and across the road. Water can carry rocks and debris with it and may suddenly appear around the next curve in the roadway.
y In Case of Emergency: Dial 911 from any telephone or cell phone. Cell phones may not work in many parts of the park, do not depend on them.
LIFE FLIGHT RESCUE FLOOD FLAT TIRE ROLLOVER HEAT
Entrance Fees
7 day pass:
1 Vehicle and all passengers $20
Individual on motorcycle, bicycle, or on foot $10
Commercial vehicle by capacity:1-6 $25+$10 per person7-15 $7516-25 $10026+ $200
Annual pass:
Death Valley annual pass $40
Interagency annual pass $80
Interagency senior pass $10 (Lifetime pass for U.S. citizens 62+)
Interagency access pass Free (Lifetime pass for U.S. citizens with disability)
National Park passes honored: Golden Age & Golden Access
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Park InformationBackcountry: Read This Before You Go!
You’ve got two flat tires. Your cell phone doesn’t work. Nobody knows where you are. You’re not sure where you are. You haven’t seen another car since you turned off the highway 12 hours ago. The only thing you can hear is the ringing in your ears. Is this how you thought it would end?
Most backcountry emergencies begin in fairly commonplace ways: your car gets a flat tire, you run out of gas, you sprain your ankle while on a hike, or you get disoriented and turned around in the desert landscape. Things that are easy to address in most places quickly become life-threat-ening emergencies in the backcountry as heat, cold, exhaustion, dehydra-tion, isolation, and panic set in.
No matter what kind of adventure or experience you pursue in Death Valley, a little planning and caution will send you home with happy and fun-filled memories of your desert trip. Have a safe and inspiring visit to Death Valley by following these tips from the rangers:
y Plan your visit: Do you have the appropriate vehicle, tires, tools, camping gear, maps, and skills for your intended route? Do you have enough fuel and water? If you aren’t sure, ask a ranger.
y Be prepared: If you’re headed into the backcountry plan on changing a flat tire at least once. Check your rental car contract to see if you are covered should something happen to your car on an unpaved road. Have the necessary tools (rental cars often lack the proper tire chang-ing tools!) and know how to use them.
Death Valley Mines“The accounts of the abundance of gold [in California] are of such extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief were they not corroborated by the authentic reports of officers in the public service who have visited the mineral district.”
-President James K. Polk’s address to Congress, December 5, 1848
Stories of gold strikes in the newly-acquired territory of California had been published in the preceding months, but President Polk’s official notice to Congress in 1848 sparked the California Gold Rush, enticing more than 250,000 people to join the search for riches over the next four years. Mining continued in Death Valley for over 150 years!
In 2009 America’s national parks received $750 million in stimulus money under the American Recov-ery and Reinvestment Act. Death Valley was allocated $4.8 million for mitigating hazardous mine con-ditions in some of the Park’s most visited locations. During 2010 and 2011, this money was used for stabilization of the Keane Wonder Mine tramway, as well as mitigation of 235 hazardous mine openings at seven sites around the park:
y Keane Wonder Mine
y Eureka Mine
y Titus Canyon
y Gem Mine
y Skidoo
y Gower Gulch
y Greenwater Valley
Abandoned mine sites can pose numerous dangers to visitors, including bad air, unstable mine openings, collapsing mine struc-tures and buildings, and con-tamination from heavy metals and chemicals used in the ore milling process. Visitors to Death Valley should be aware of these potential dangers and resist the temptation to enter mine openings or dilapi-dated structures. Keane Wonder Mine tramway
Lippincott Road - Are you equipped?
y Bring food, water and other es-sentials for several days, even if you’re planning a much shorter visit.
y Don’t rely on technology! Your cell phone won’t work in most of the park. Emer-gency locator beacons have a high failure rate. GPS devices frequently tell Death Valley visitors to turn off well-traveled roads, and take “shortcuts” over the desert and into iso-lated canyons. Common sense and good judgment are far more reliable.
Do you have the tools to change a tire?
Death Valley’s last active mine closed in 2005 and the park is in the process of conducting an abandoned mine inventory to see how many mines exist within park boundaries. Though the inventory is ongoing, the park is estimated to have 6,000-10,000 mine features, with 2,000-3,000 of those being po-tentially hazardous mine openings. Death Valley is believed to possess the most abandoned mines of any single National Park Service unit.
While Keane Wonder remains closed, this past year saw the mitigation of 50 hazardous mine openings, plus the stabilization of multiple tram towers, and the upper and lower tram terminals. The other issue that still needs to be addressed is the environmental contaminants left behind from milling. The park is actively work-ing towards resolving this issue and making the site suitable for visitation once again.
STAY OUT STAY ALIVE!
IN THE BACKCOUNTRY IT CAN TAKE A VERY LONG TIME TO GET HELP!
y Call someone at home and tell them specifically where you are going. Have them call (888) 233-6518 (Emergency Dispatch) if you do not return when expected: It takes a long time to search 3.4 million acres of wilderness. We can find you faster if we know where to look and what we’re looking for. Complete a backcountry hiker form at any visitor center to ensure that we have all the infor-mation needed to find you quickly.
Saratoga Springs Mine
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Furnace Creek Area
What to See y Badwater Basin: The lowest
point in North America, Badwater Basin is a surreal landscape of vast salt flats. A temporary lake may form here after heavy rainstorms. Do not walk on the salt flats in hot weather.
y Harmony Borax Works: Fol-low an easy 1/4 mile walking trail to learn about this impor-tant site in Death Valley’s his-tory. The Harmony Borax oper-ation became famous through the use of 20 mule teams that moved borax from Death Val-ley to nearby communities.
y Artist’s Drive: A scenic loop drive through multi-hued volcanic and sedimentary hills. Artist’s Palette is especially photogenic in late afternoon light. The 9 mile paved road is one-way and is only drivable with vehicles less than 25 feet in length.
y Dante’s View: The most breathtaking viewpoint in the park, this mountain-top over-look is more than 5000 feet above the floor of Death Valley. The paved access road is open to all vehicles less than 25 feet in length.
y Devil’s Golf Course: An i mmense area of rock salt eroded by wind and rain into jagged spires. So incredibly serrated that “only the devil could play golf on such rough links.”The unpaved road leading to it is often closed after rain.
y Zabriskie Point: Surrounded by a maze of wildly eroded and vibrantly colored badlands, this spectacular view is one of the park’s most famous. Zabriskie Point is a popular sunrise and sunset viewing location. The viewpoint is a short walk uphill from the parking area.
y Twenty Mule Team Canyon: Winding through otherworldly badlands, this 2.7 mile, one-way loop drive is unpaved, but accessible to vehicles other than buses, RV’s, and trailers.
View of Badwater Basin from Dante’s View
Wildrose Charcoal Kilns
Ubehebe Crater
Harmony Borax Works
Panamint Springs Area y Father Crowley Vista: A land-
scape of dark lava flows and volcanic cinders abruptly gives way to the gash of Rainbow
Canyon below this viewpoint. Walk the dirt track east of the parking lot for a grand over-look of the northern Panamint Valley.
y Ubehebe Crater: Just a few hundred years ago a massive volcanic explosion caused by magma mixing with an un-derground spring, shattered the silence of northern Death Valley. When the cinders and dust settled, this 600 foot deep crater remained. Although easily visible from the paved road, hikers may want to circle the crater rim to see smaller craters.
y Scotty’s Castle: Prospector “Death Valley Scotty” claimed this elaborate Spanish-style mansion was built by gold from his fictitious mine. In reality, it was the 1920s vacation home
of his wealthy friends. Today, living history tours of the castle’s richly
furnished inte-rior are given by costumed park rangers.
Scotty’s Castle Area
y Salt Creek: This stream of salty water is the only home to a rare pupfish, Cyprinodon salinus. Springtime is best for viewing pupfish; in sum-mer the lower stream dries up and in winter the fish are not as active in Salt Creek. The wooden boardwalk loops ½ mile through stands of pick-leweed and past pools reflect-ing badland hills. Wheelchair accessible.
y Wildrose Charcoal Kilns: These ten beehive-shaped structures are among the best preserved in the west. Built in 1876 to provide fuel to process silver/lead ore, they still smell of smoke today. The last 2 miles of gravel road to the kilns are passable to most vehicles.
Stovepipe Wells Area y Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes:
Tawny dunes smoothly rising nearly 100 feet from Mesquite Flat. Late afternoon light accentuates the ripples and pat-terns while morning is a good time to view tracks of noctur-nal wildlife. Moonlight on the dunes can be magical, yet night explorers should be alert for sidewinder rattlesnakes during the warm season.
Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes
Artists Drive 20-mule team
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Day Hikes & Backroads
y Before starting a hike: learn the current conditions, water availability, and weather fore-casts. Backpackers can obtain a free permit from any visitor center.
y Always carry water. Two liters for a short winter day hike; 4 liters or more in the summer or for longer hikes.
y Constructed trails are rare in this park. Trails are provided in places that are heavily used and sensitive to damage. If a trail is there, please use it. Most hiking routes in the park are cross-country, up canyons, or along ridges. Footing can be rough and rocky.
y Hiking in low elevations can be dangerous when it is hot. The high peaks can be covered with snow in winter and spring. The best time to hike in the park is October to April.
y Dogs and bicycles are not al-lowed on trails or in the wilder-ness.
Things to Know Before You Go!
Golden Canyon
Length: 1 mile, one-way.Difficulty: easyStart: Golden Canyon parking area, 2 miles south of Highway 190 on Badwater Road.Description: Easy trail through colorful canyon. Red Cathedral located ¼ mile up canyon from last numbered marker. Interpretive trail guides are available.
Gower Gulch Loop
Length: 4 miles round-trip.Difficulty: moderateStart: Golden Canyon parking area, 2 miles south of Highway 190 on Badwater Road.Description: Colorful badlands, canyon narrows, old borax mines. Hike up Golden Canyon to marker #10, then follow trail over badlands and down Gower Gulch to finish loop. Two easy dryfalls must be scrambled down. Ask for Gower Gulch handout at a visitor center.
Badwater Salt Flats
Length: As long or short as you like (the salt flats are 5 miles one-way across).
Difficulty: easy to moderate; sections may be muddy or rough.
Start: Badwater parking area
Description: Follow the path out from Badwater Pool into the purity of white salt and the nation’s low-est elevation at 282 feet below sea level. Avoid hiking here in the hot months due to the lack of shade and extreme temperatures.
Natural Bridge Canyon
Length: ½ mile to natural bridge, 1 mile to end of canyon.Difficulty: easyStart: Natural Bridge parking area, 1.5 miles off Badwater Rd. on gravel road, 13 miles south of Highway 190.Description: Uphill walk through the narrow canyon. Large natural bridge at ½ mile. Trail ends at dry waterfall.
Darwin Falls
Length: 1 mile, one-way.Difficulty: moderateStart: One mile west of Panamint Springs Resort off Highway 190. Darwin Falls parking area, 2.4 miles up gravel road toward Dar-win.Description: Year-round waterfalls and lush vegetation tucked into a rugged canyon. Can be overgrown and has some rough spots. There is a trail to first waterfall but danger-ous cliffs beyond.
Titus Canyon Narrows
Length: 1.5 miles, one-way. Difficulty: easyStart: Titus Canyon parking area, 3 miles off Scotty’s Castle Road on graded gravel road. Description: Easy access to lower Titus Canyon. Follow gravel road up wash 1.5 miles through narrows or continue to Klare Springs and petroglyphs at 6.5 miles.
Fall Canyon
Length: 3 miles, one-way. Difficulty: moderately strenuousStart: Titus Canyon Mouth park-ing area, 3 miles off Scotty’s Castle Road on graded gravel road. Description: Spectacular wilder-ness canyon near Titus Canyon. Follow informal path ½ mile north along base of mountains, drop into large wash at canyon’s mouth, then hike 2½ miles up canyon to 20 foot dryfall. You can climb around the dryfall 300 feet back down canyon on south side for access to best nar-rows. Canyon continues another 3 miles before second dryfall blocks passage. No trail in canyon.
Mosaic Canyon
Length: ½ mile, one-way.Difficulty: moderateStart: Mosaic Canyon Trailhead ¼ mile west of Stovepipe Wells.Description: Polished marble walls and odd mosaic patterns of breccia make this small canyon a favorite. The twisting lower can-yon is so narrow hikers must walk through it single-file. Some rock scrambling is required. The canyon opens up after ½ mile to reveal the heights of Tucki Mountain, but hik-ers can continue another 1½ miles.Darwin Falls
Eureka Dunes
Rising nearly 700 feet, these are the highest dunes in California. Iso-lated from other dunes, they are an evolutionary island, home to rare and endangered species of plants and animals. To give them extra protection, the dunes are off limits to sandboarding and horseback riding. The drive can be rough and will take approximately 2.5 hours from the end of pavement off of Scotty’s Castle Road.
The Racetrack
Rocks myste-riously slide across the dry lakebed of the Racetrack, leav-ing behind long tracks for visi-tors to ponder. A high-clear-ance vehicle is needed to traverse the 27 miles of rough dirt road; ask at a ranger sta-tion for current road condi-tions. Once you leave pave-ment at Ube-hebe Crater the drive will take approximately 2.5 hours one-way to the racetrack.
Aguereberry Point
One thousand feet higher than Dante’s View, this viewpoint gives a perspective over Death Valley from the west. Along the gravel road are the remains of Pete Aguereberry’s camp and his Eureka Mine. The last climb to the point may require a high-clearance vehicle. The trip from Stovepipe Wells will take about 1.5 hours to the point.
Titus Canyon
The largest and most diverse canyon in the park. Within its lofty walls visitors can find volcanic de-posits, a ghost town, Indian petro-glyphs, bighorn sheep, and deep, winding narrows. Titus Canyon is accessible to high-clearance vehicles via a 26 mile, one-way dirt road beginning outside the park. The trip will take 3 hours from Beatty to Scotty’s Castle Road.
Be prepared before you drive into the backcountry! Read the infor-mation on page 3 and discuss your plans with a ranger. Have a safe trip!
Eureka Dunes
Hiking Trails & Routes
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Manly Beacon from Gower Gulch Loop
Badwater Salt Flats
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8 Death Valley Visitor Guide
Park ProjectsIs It LEED Gold?
The visitor center complex was designed to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold standard for an existing building. LEED is an internationally-recognized “green” building certification system and provides building owners and op-erators with a framework for iden-tifying and implementing practical and measurable “green” building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions.
LEED certification provides inde-pendent, third-party verification that a building was adapted using strategies aimed at achieving high performance in five key areas of human and environmental health:
y Sustainable site development
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Death Valley National Park de-cided to participate in the LEED process because we are committed to utilizing the taxpayers’ money in the most efficient and sustainable way.
LEED documentation follows a stringent process to document ev-erything that goes into the project.
The project examination process will be completed in 2013, at which time the park will be awarded a LEED certification.
Furnace Creek “Historic Mission 66” Visitor Center
The Furnace Creek Visitor Center complex in Death Valley National Park consists of two buildings and a cen-tral courtyard that were built in 1959 as part of the Mission 66 program to prepare the nation’s parks for the 50 year anniversary of the National Park Service in 1966. A collaborative effort between the State of California, the not-for-profit Death Valley ‘49ers, and the National Park Service made construction of this complex possible. With age and the rising cost of energy over the last 50 years, the visitor center complex became Death Valley’s most costly buildings to operate. The electricity alone was $45,000 annually. In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allowed the park to begin designing the rehabilitation of this facility, and Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act fee dollars paid for its reconstruction. Our goal was to make the structure more sustainable and energy efficient, while retaining the regionally significant, mid-century modern appearance of this Mission 66 structure.
Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Death Valley As you drive through Death Valley National Park you may see a number of photo-voltaic or solar panel systems and you may wonder….how much is that saving the park? Though the solar panels are installed, they have not been put into service yet. The National Park Service and Southern California Edison are hammering out legal documents for a net metering agreement between our agencies. When the agreements are finally signed the park expects to see 258.4 kilowatts or $71,000 in savings. The following facilities are awaiting final agreements:
View of the restored Furnace Creek Visitor Center
Furnace Creek Visitor Center courtyard
New energy saving air-lock entry to the Furnace Creek Visitor Center
y Furnace Creek Visitor Center
y Stovepipe Wells Ranger Station
y Cow Creek Administrative Complex
Furnace Creek Visitor Center solar panel system
Returning visitors will notice:
y A lobby expansion of 1,500 square feet
y Modification of the theater where we will show a new park film
y A redesigned parking lot to im-prove traffic flow and provide shade
y New restroom facilities
y Shade structures in the court-yard
Energy saving changes include:
y Triple-pane insulated windows
y A new roof with increased insulation
y Air-lock entries to limit the cooling loss
y A modern, more efficient heating and cooling system
y Insulation between the old brick and a new inner wall
y A water station for visitors to fill their own water bottles
y Employee Dormitories
y Stovepipe Wells Water System
Death Valley Visitor Guide 9
Ranger Programs
Death Valley - An Oasis for Education
Imagine a classroom 3.4 million acres in size, full of plants, animals, wa-ter, weather, rocks, historic buildings and starry night skies. Death Valley National Park provides just such a learning venue to hundreds of stu-dents, teachers, and chaperones every year through the many education programs offered by our staff.
If you are a teacher interested in planning a field trip to Death Valley, arranging for a ranger to visit your classroom, or having our traveling trunk shipped to you, visit our website www.nps.gov/deva/forteachers or contact our Education Specialist at 760-786-3226.
These opportunities are made possible through grants and generous pri-vate donations. If you want to support the future of our National Parks by supporting these education programs, contact Death Valley Natural History Association at dvnha.org/death-valley-rocks.html or call 760-786-2146.
Death Valley ROCKS
ROCKS (the Recreational Outdoor Cam-paign for Kids through Study) is a three-day, two-night environmental education camp program. Students engage in hands-on, out-door, inquiry-based learning activities that enhance science, language art, visual art, history, mathematics, and physical educa-tion skills by exploring the essential ques-tion, “How does geology influence human, plant, and animal life?” Students also learn camping and desert survival skills. The curriculum-based program is de-signed for California 5th grade students and Nevada 7th grade students, but can be adapted for older or younger audiences. Las Vegas and Los Angeles public schools with under-served populations, and local rural schools are invited to apply for full or partial transportation scholarships.
Exploring with a Park RangerDeath Valley National Park is vast and diverse; it takes years to truly understand and explore it. At-tending a ranger program takes only a few minutes
to a few hours and makes understanding Death Valley fun and easy. Park Rangers can introduce you
to a new canyon or reintroduce you to a familiar site with a new twist. Programs include guided tours of historic sites, discussions on the visitor center patio, walks on the salt flats and dark night sky programs. Pick up a weekly ranger program schedule at any visitor center or find it online at www.nps.gov/deva to see the programs offered during your visit. Fees are charged for Scotty’s Castle and Lower Vine tours; all other tours are free. Join us, and discover what this place is really all about!
Do You Want to Be a Scientist? Around the world visitors to remote locations are providing valuable data to researchers by their observations. Your personal observations of wild-life can be very valuable. Death Val-ley National Park is currently design-ing a database that will hold visitor data and allow us to develop distribu-tion maps of wildlife throughout the park. Two species of special inter-est are the Nelson’s bighorn sheep and the desert tortoise.
Bighorn sheep spend much of their time in rugged and inaccessible loca-tions. It can be challenging and expensive to collect population data.
The desert tortoise population has severly declined across the Mojave Desert in the past few decades. Surveying for a cryptic, low-density spe-cies can mean hours/days of searching with limited results. Tortoises in Death Valley are generally active during mild weather retreating into their burrows to escape extreme heat or cold.
The Desert Managers Group has developed a free app for Smartphones so you can provide information on tortoise sightings to the National Park Service staff. Go to www.dmg.gov/announcements.php?id=120 for more information.
Other wildlife species observations are wel-come also. Please be as accurate as possible and include your contact information. Photos provide great informa-tion and are always ap-preciated. Thank you for participating as a visitor scientist!
Please fill out a wildlife sighting form available at any visitor center.
Nelson’s bighorn sheep herd
Desert tortoise
You Can Be a Junior Ranger!Want to have fun while exploring Death Valley? Pick up your free junior ranger book at any visi-tor center. After you finish the activities and re-cite the junior ranger pledge, a park ranger will sign your book and give you an official junior ranger badge.
Present your completed junior ranger book at any Death Valley Natural History Association bookstore and you can purchase a special junior ranger patch for a small fee. What a great way to explore Death Valley!
Death Valley Night Sky Program
Have you ever wondered what that cluster of stars in the western sky is? Or that bright spot just over the horizon at sunset? Are you interested in seeing a lunar eclipse of Jupiter? With several high powered telescopes, Death Valley National Park rangers are opening up the mystery of the dark night skies.
Death Valley has one of the darkest night skies in the nation. Periodically night sky ranger star programs are offered in various areas of the park. In the past, the park has partnered with other organizations to bring telescopes of all shapes and sizes. From looking through a binoscope to seeing the colors of a nebula on a computer, there is something for everyone. You don’t have to be an aspiring Galileo to enjoy the wonder of the night sky! Come join us!
Customized Education Programs
The Death Valley education staff is happy to provide short, on-topic pro-grams for visiting classes, whether you are a local school coming out for a day trip, or a distant group planning your own itinerary but interested in a little bit of ranger support. Scout troops and other community organizations are welcome to request these programs. See our website at www.nps.gov/deva/forteachers/ranger-guided-day-and-night-programs.htm for a complete list of topics, times, and grade levels.
Night sky panoramic photo taken at the Racetrack
To preserve the desert landscape in Death Valley National Park, we must actively manage non-native species and quickly identify new invaders. In Death Valley we currently enjoy a wild landscape that is largely unimpaired but we need your help to keep it that way.
A Smart phone application is now avail-able for free from whatsinvasive.com to help you report non-native species to National Park Service staff. Don’t worry if you don’t have cell reception, your report will be uploaded as soon as you are within service. In the springtime, during wildflower season, Death Valley is on high alert for Saharan mustard (Brassica tournefortii) and malcolmia (Malcolmia africana). You don’t need an app to report sightings of these plants. Just let someone at the visitor center know. Photos and maps are helpful!
Another way to help preserve the desert landscape is to ensure there are no un-wanted hitchhikers on your car or your clothes. Before you enter a park, check underneath your vehicle and inside the grill for weeds that might have tumbled into your car. Also check your clothes and shoelaces for seeds before setting out for a hike. If you do find seeds, seal them in a plastic bag and throw them away.
malcolmia (Malcolmia africana)
Saharan mustard (Brassica tournefortii)
Desert Invaders
10 Death Valley Visitor Guide
Scotty’s CastleA History of Adventure, Eccentricity, and Legendary Cunning...
Death Valley Scotty & Albert Johnson share a joke
Touring the CastleHouse Tour
Best tour for first-time visitors. Tours are led by National Park Service Rangers, dressed in 1939 clothing. The guide will share sto-ries about the heyday of the Castle in the late ‘30s, the construction in the 1920s, and the curious relation-ship between the Johnsons and Scotty. The house is fully furnished with the Johnsons’ original decora-tions. Some of their clothing even hangs in the closets! A highlight of the program is listening to the Welte Mignon theater organ. Tours offered daily, times vary. One hour. Wheelchair lift may be available.
Underground Tour
Scotty’s Castle was very remote when it was built in the 1920s. The underground tour focuses on how the Johnsons built a comfortable vacation home in Death Valley. The tour sees the basement, un-derground tunnels, heating system, original pipes, original power gen-eration and power storage systems. A highlight is the demonstration of electrical generation using an origi-nal Pelton water wheel. Offered most days from November through April, times vary. One hour. Tour involves stairs, no lift available.
Lower Vine Hiking Tour
Scotty’s Castle was not Scotty’s home. Albert and Bessie Johnson had the structures at Lower Vine Ranch built partly as a residence for Scotty and partly to lock up wa-ter rights near the Castle. Scotty’s modest cabin, garage, small black-smith shed, grain shed, and corrals are seen on this 2-mile, 2½ hour round trip ranger-guided hike over uneven surfaces. Offered occasion-ally. Reservations strongly recom-mended.
Tickets These prices are effective through December 31, 2011
y Combination discount offered to people that go on House and Underground tours in same day.
y Reservations are not necessary for House and Underground Tours, but can reduce wait time once you arrive. Reservations are strongly recommended for Lower Vine Hiking Tours.
Tickets may be purchased at least one day in advance from www.recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777. On the day of the tour, tickets may only be purchased in person at the Scotty’s Castle Visitor Center.
y Visitors are encouraged to enjoy the picnic area and to walk outside the buildings freely during business hours. Pre-packaged sandwiches, soft drinks, snacks, books and souvenirs are available. No gasoline or lodging.
House Tour or Underground Tour:
Adult .................................................................... $11
Youth (ages 6-15) .................................................. $6
Children 5 and younger ....................................Free
Access pass holders ............................................ $6(U.S. citizens with disability)
Seniors (U.S. citizens 62+) .................................... $9
Lower Vine Hiking Tour:
Adult ...................................................................$15
Youth (ages 6-15) .................................................. $8
Children 5 and younger ...................................Free
Access pass holders ........................................... $8(U.S. citizens with disability)
Seniors (U.S. citizens 62+) .................................$11
Walter “Death Valley Scotty” Scott could be seen as either an enter-tainer or conman–or both. Scotty left his family’s Kentucky home at a very young age to work as a cowboy in the American West. As a teenager he worked numerous jobs out west, including in Death Valley.
A talent scout for William “Buf-falo Bill” Cody discovered Scotty in 1890 and hired him to work as a stunt performer in Buffalo Bill’s world famous Wild West show. It was as an actor with the Wild West show that Scotty learned show-manship skills that would later serve him in his next career.
In 1902, Scotty began a new pro-fession that would bring him even more fame and riches: talking people out of their money. Scotty convinced several wealthy busi-nessmen that he had a fabulous gold mine claim in Death Valley and agreed to split the profits, provided they first forward invest-ment money to Scotty. One of these investors was Albert Johnson, an insurance executive from Chicago, Illinois.
Hoping to gain full control of Scotty’s mining interests, Johnson traveled to Death Valley in 1906 to see Scotty’s fabled mine. Of course, Scotty never showed Johnson the gold mine. Instead he took John-son on an adventure grander than anything the wealthy business-man probably ever expected. They camped in the desert, and were even involved in a gunfight!
Johnson began to make regular trips to Death Valley with Scotty. By 1915, Albert and his wife, Bes-sie, began acquiring land within Grapevine Canyon, in the northern part of Death Valley. The surprising Spanish-style castle-in-the-desert served as the Johnsons’ vacation home.
However, Scotty was quick to pretend ownership, and it became known as Scotty’s Castle. Soon the Johnsons and Scotty were enjoy-ing a good laugh at the expense of Death Valley’s early tourists, some of whom actually believed Scotty’s legendary gold mine was located in the tunnels beneath the Castle.
Bessie’s pool, an oasis in the desert
Death Valley Visitor Guide 11
Park Partners
Death Valley Conservancy
The Death Valley Conservancy (DVC), a California non-profit public benefit corporation, was established in 2008 to provide support and de-velop broad-based private funding for significant projects in Death Valley National Park and the surrounding communities.
Its special “Death Valley Fund” was created to provide for Park-specific projects that preserve, protect or enhance Death Valley National Park’s natural, cultural and historic resources and the visitor experience.
The DVC has already raised and provided considerable support. Note-worthy is a $100,000 grant from the Offield Family Foundation for re-search for the endangered Devil’s Hole Pupfish. This grant purchased custom, specialized, state-of-the-art stereo video equipment and software and is funding a researcher from Ball State University to focus on Devils Hole’s unique habitat along with the needed scientific equipment.
The DVC also secured a donation of $10,000 and 900 sleeping bags for students in the Death Valley ROCKS program through the Coleman Company.
The DVC is in the process of acquiring the historic Ryan mining camp from Rio Tinto Corporation (previously US Borax) along with providing significant funds to pay for restoration and future maintenance. There are plans to restore the camp as much as possible to its historic flavor, and DVC is currently exploring the use of Ryan mining camp as an educa-tional and research center in the future.
You can read more about DVC at dvconservancy.org/
Death Valley Natural History Association Since 1954 the Death Valley Natural History Association (DVNHA) has been assisting Death Valley National Park as a cooperating association. DVNHA is a non-profit association dedicated to the preservation and in-terpretation of the natural and cultural history of the Death Valley region. To date, the DVNHA has contributed more than $3 million to the park!
DVNHA operates bookstores in four locations: y Furnace Creek Visitor Center
y Stovepipe Wells Ranger Station
y Scotty’s Castle Visitor Center
y Ash Meadows Wildlife Refuge Office
DVNHA contributes 100% of its profit to benefit education and research in Death Valley National Park and Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. Some of the projects DVNHA supports include the Death Valley ROCKS education program, Youth Conservation Corps program, summer intern-ships program, and printing of the park’s Visitor Guide each year.
DVNHA also sponsors the Death Valley Conference on History and Prehis-tory -- scheduled for November 4-6, 2011 in Beatty, Nevada. Twenty-four presenters are on the schedule to impart new research on the region across a range of topics. If you have never attended this event which takes place every two years, put it on your calendar. You will not be disappointed!
DVNHA is a member-supported organization. Membership not only increases support to the park, but also increases visitor awareness and education—something you can feel good about now and in the future. In addition to supporting projects that might not otherwise be funded, benefits of membership include:
y 15% discount on all purchases at four locations.
y 15% discount at most National Park Service Visitor Center book-stores nationwide.
y Subscription to Telescope, our membership newsletter.
y Advance notice of special events and sales.
y A free membership patch.
For more information, see dvnha.org
VIPs Sighted at Death Valley National ParkEveryone knows what a VIP is, but we have our own meaning for them here in Death Valley—Volunteers in Parks. These folks are truly VIPs in every sense of the word. Our VIPs work in every park division doing all kinds of work, from inter-pretive programs to the auto shop.
Volunteers are an integral part of nearly every park within the Na-tional Park system. In Death Valley National Park, volunteers contrib-uted more than 36,000 labor-hours in 2011, the equivalent of more than 17 person-years of work!
Volunteers come to the park for all different types of work and for various lengths of time. Some, like campground hosts, are here all winter long, while others for shorter stays. Most live in their RVs near the employee housing area. We also have “virtual volunteers;” those that work at home and only come to the park on a periodic basis.
In addition to those coming from afar, we have volunteers from our local gateway communities that contribute their expertise to our opera-tions. This is a great opportunity for the park and our neighbors to make a connection. College and universities come in small groups to tackle wilderness restoration projects or help with debris clean up. We nearly always have Americorps or Student Conservation Association volunteers in the park at any given time. Scouts and conservation groups like to lend a hand for a weekend or a day. We can welcome most groups if we have adequate advance notice.
We’re often looking for a particular skill set, and recruit for specific posi-tions at volunteer.gov/gov. The nps.gov site also provides a searchable database where you can search by park or by state.
For more info on Death Valley’s volunteer program, call Cheryl Chipman at 760-786-3207.
Volunteer Jim “Chickenwire” Klassen keeps Park radios in good repair.
Volunteer Mike Wehmeyer drives & repairs the fire engine, is an EMT and leads tours at Scotty’s Castle
Historic Ryan Camp
Volunteers Jim & Gladyce Neves have been hosts at Texas Springs Campground for thirteen years.
For millennia the Timbisha Sho-shone have been a people inextrica-bly tied to the beautiful but austere desert landscape. They have a strong sense of responsibility for it. Over the ages, the Timbisha Shoshone have devised ingenious methods for man-aging the natural resources of their Homeland. One such innovation was the Tribe’s use of fire to control veg-etation in marshes and to encourage seeds and other plants known to be fire followers. Rich harvests and lush plant growth resulted from the time and effort the people traditionally spent clearing and pruning plants and transplanting and cultivating
Timbisha Shoshone Tribe
native domesticated plants. Tribal knowledge also included the location of water sources which they regularly cleaned and kept clear of debris to ensure a continued supply of clean, potable water. Some springs are choked with vegetation because the Tribe has not been allowed to continue its traditional care-taking activities.
Today, working in concert with the staff at Death Valley National Park, mem-bers of the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe are involved in the co-management of some of the spring sites by using traditional methods. Using hand tools the pruning and clearing out the overgrowth of vegetation at the springs will provide access to surface water, enhance water flow, and will maintain and enhance the growth of desirable grasses and other herbaceous species.
Tribe members Pauline Esteves and Barbara Durham while “spring cleaning”
12 Death Valley Visitor Guide
Name Telephone ServicesFurnace Creek Visitor Center (www.nps.gov/deva)
760-786-3200The Furnace Creek Visitor Center is operated by the National Park Service. Park rangers provide information, ranger talks, and park information. Pay park entrance fees and purchase passes.
Death Valley Natural History Association (dvnha.org/)
800-478-8564The Death Valley Natural History Association operates the bookstores inside of the visitor centers at Furnace Creek and Scotty’s Castle as well as the Stovepipe Wells ranger station and Ash Meadows.
Scotty’s Castle (www.nps.gov/deva/historyculture/scottys-castle.htm)
760-786-2392Scotty’s Castle is operated by the National Park Service. Park rangers provide daily tours (fee charged), visitor information and assistance. Soft drinks, sandwiches and snacks are also available.
www.recreation.gov (www.recreation.gov)
877-444-6777
Recreation.gov provides reservations at some government campgrounds within Death Valley between October 15 to April 15. Furnace Creek campground reserva-tions can be made up to six months in advance. Group campsite reservations can be made eleven months in advance. Scotty’s Castle tour reservations can be made up to 24 hours prior to the visit.
Stovepipe Wells Village (escapetodeathvalley.com)
760-786-2387
Stovepipe Wells Village is a park concession operated and managed by the Death Valley Lodge Company. The company provides the following services: motel, restaurant, bar, ATM, gift shop, convenience store, gas station, showers, swimming pool, paved airstrip, RV hookups, campground, and ranger station
Panamint Springs Resort (www.deathvalley.com/psr)
775-482-7680Panamint Springs Resort is privately owned and operated. The resort provides the following services: Motel, restaurant, bar, gas station, campground, RV hookups, showers.
Furnace Creek Inn & Ranch Resorts (www.furnacecreekresort.com)
760-786-2345
Furnace Creek Inn and Ranch are private inholdings within the National Park. Managed by Xanterra Parks and Resorts, the Inn and Ranch have the following services available: historic hotel, motel, camping, restaurants, bars, general store, gift shops, ATM, gas station, diesel, propane, tire repair, post office, showers, laundro-mat, swimming, bike rentals, horse rides, carriage rides, borax museum, golf course, tennis courts, paved airstrip, jeep rentals and tours.
Farabee’s Jeep Rentals & Towing (www.Death ValleyJeepRentals.com)
877-970-5337 Farabee’s is located across from the Inn at Furnace Creek and offers jeep rentals, including trail maps, driving tips and ice chests. Also provide towing services.
Visitor Services in Death Valley
* Accessible to high clearance vehicles only. 4-wheel drive may be necessary.
CAMPGROUND Open Season Elevation FeeNumber of
Sites Water Tables Firepits ToiletsRV
HookupsDump
Station
Furnace Creek (NPS) all year -196´ $18** 136 yes yes yes flush no yes
Sunset (NPS) mid-Oct to mid-Apr -196´ $12 270 yes no no flush no yes
Texas Spring (NPS) mid-Oct to mid-Apr sea level $14 106 yes yes yes flush no yes
Stovepipe Wells (NPS) mid-Oct to mid-Apr sea level $12 190 yes some some flush no yes
Stovepipe Wells Resort (RV only) all year sea level $31 14 yes some no flush 50 amp yes
Furnace Creek Ranch (RV only) all year -218’ $32 12 yes no no flush yes yes
Mesquite Spring (NPS - 30’) all year 1,800’ $12 40 yes yes yes flush no yes
Panamint Springs Resort all year 2,000’ $7.50-$30 50 yes yes some flush yes yes
Emigrant (NPS - tent only) all year 2100´ free 10 yes yes no flush no no
Wildrose (NPS - 25’) all year 4100´ free 23 yes yes yes pit no no
Thorndike* (NPS) Mar-Nov 7400´ free 6 no yes yes pit no no
Mahogany Flat* (NPS) Mar-Nov 8200´ free 10 no yes yes pit no no
** Furnace Creek Campground fee changes to $12 per night from mid-April to mid-October.
Temperatures Max Min
Jan. 65°F / 18°C 39°F / 4°CFeb. 72°F / 22°C 46°F / 8°CMarch 80°F / 27°C 53°F / 12°CApril 90°F / 32°C 62°F / 17°CMay 99°F / 37°C 71°F / 22°CJune 109°F / 43°C 80°F / 27°CJuly 115°F / 46°C 88°F / 31°CAugust 113°F / 45°C 85°F / 29°CSept. 106°F / 41°C 75°F / 24°COct. 92°F / 33°C 62°F / 16°CNov. 76°F / 24°C 48°F / 9°CDec. 65°F / 19°C 39°F / 4°C
Official weather station at Furnace Creek
Record High: 134°F / 57°C July 1913 Record Low: 15°F / -9°C January 1913
New Concessionaire
Death Valley National Park is pleased to welcome a new concessionaire at Stovepipe Wells Village. The Death Valley Lodging Company, run by the Ortega Family Enterprises, was selected to run the opera-tion in January 2011 for a term of 10 years.
“We will be leading the charge to operate as respon-sible partners in all phases of business operations. Our environmentally conscious efforts are prior-ity one with any project and our goal is to be the template for the future of National Park concession operations.” says Shane Ortega, who holds an MBA from Stanford with an emphasis on environmental stewardship.
The Ortega family is from Sante Fe, New Mexico, and well known as successful entrepreneurs throughout the Southwest. They operate other National Park concessions at Bandelier, White Sands, Carlsbad Caverns, and Muir Woods, and they manage the historic El Rancho Hotel in Gallup, New Mexico. They also manage galler-ies in the southwest featuring Native American jewelry.
The Death Valley Lodging Company has updated several aspects of the property, including complimentary Wi-Fi in all rooms and they have revised the menu with year-round lunches served in the Saloon.
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