Amargosa Desert

Beatty, NV

A few miles southeast of nowhere, so its easy to find. Now-days, a gateway to Death Valley, Beatty started out as ...

Death Valley Junction, CA

Death Valley Junction is a small community in the Amargosa Valley in California. It is home to the Amargosa Opera House and the Amargosa Hotel. ...

Ash Meadows

Warm water from underground bubbles up through sand into clear spring pools. Silvery blue pupfish dart between swaying strands of ...

Her birth was brought about by Shorty Harris and E. L. Cross, who were prospecting in the area in 1904. They found quartz all over a hill, and as Shorty describes it “... the quartz was just full of free gold...

Big Dune

... is a 1.5 square mile complex star sand dune that reaches 2,731 feet above sea level.

Amargosa Desert - Pahrump Valley

Ecosubsection information including the alluvial plains of the Amargosa Desert, Sarcobatus Flat, Stewart Valley, Pahrump Valley, Mesquite Valley, and California Valley.

The Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad

... Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Pacific Coast Borax Company, which from 1905 to 1907 built a standard gauge railroad between Ludlow on the Santa Fe main line to Death Valley Junction and Beatty, where ...

Amargosa River

The Amargosa River originates in the mountains surrounding Beatty, Nevada, flows through the Amargosa Desert region, and terminates at Bad Water in Death Valley National Park. The Amargosa is nearly 200 miles long, but ...