Warm Springs

Warm Springs Camp boasts perhaps the most intact mining camp remains in Death Valley, and offer an interesting comparison between the old and the new. The Gold Hill Mill was built c. 1939, and featured a diesel-powered arrastre. Warm Springs Camp was built by Pfizer Inc. to house workers for the nearby White Point Talc Mine. It wasn’t abandoned until the early 1980s.

Extensive remains of the Gold Hill Mill remain, including a fairly intact arrastre. Warm Springs Camp is almost entirely intact, and includes several buildings (one with an impressive fire place), a swimming pool (Warm Springs flows 5 gallons a minute), and garden tools left in place when the site was abandoned. There has been little deterioration at the site.

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