The Oasis At Death Valley

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CA-190
Death Valley, CA 92328
(800) 236-7916
www.oasisatdeathvalley.com/lodging/the-inn-at-death-val...

The historic Inn at Death Valley was built in 1927 by the Pacific Coast Borax Company as a means to save their newly built Death Valley Railroad.

The Inn opened for business on February 1, 1927 with 12 guest rooms, a dining room and lobby area. Room rates were $10 per night and included meals.

Over the following eight years additions were constructed and improvements made. In 1928, construction crews added 10 guest rooms, and in 1929 the Travertine Springs were tapped for electricity and water for a new swimming pool. The spring water is still used for irrigating the Inn’s gardens and flow-through pool. More rooms were constructed until the Inn reached 66 rooms in 1935.

The Inn was designed by prominent Los Angeles architect Albert C. Martin and landscape architect Daniel Hull. Martin’s work includes the first theater owned by Sid Grauman, of Grauman’s Chinese Theater fame, as well as the Los Angeles City Hall. Hull designed the master-planned Grand Canyon Village, Old Faithful Lodge and several structures in Rocky Mountain National Park and Yosemite National Park, including the iconic Ahwahnee Hotel.

The 66-room, AAA Four Diamond Inn sits sprawled across a low hill at the mouth of Furnace Creek Wash and features spectacular views of Death Valley and the Panamint Mountains to the west. The Inn opened in 1927 and was finished in 1935.

Formerly known as Furnace Creek Inn & Ranch Resort, and before that the Greenland Ranch, Pacific Coast Borax turned the crew quarters of its Furnace Creek Ranch into a resort, creating the Furnace Creek Inn and resort in 1927. The spring at Furnace Creek was harnessed to develop the resort, and as the water was diverted, the surrounding marshes and wetlands started to shrink.
This resort presents a complete contrast to the desolate desert landscape and consists of an oasis 18-hole golf course (the world's lowest course at 214 feet below sea level), four restaurants, a saloon, a cocktail lounge, retail outlets, a Borax Museum, post office, spring-fed swimming pools, tennis courts, horseback riding, horse-drawn carriage rides, a children's playground, massage therapy, a 3,000 foot airstrip, a service station and conference and banquet facilities for 10 - 120. (Some services are available only on a seasonal basis.) Furnace Creek Resort is the perfect vantage point from which to explore Death Valley National Park! It is also the Death Valley National Park headquarters.