Death Valley National Park officials invited the public to tour one of its historic treasures known by many as Scotty's Castle, or the Death Valley Ranch. The “Scotty's Castle Flood Recovery Tours,” ...

A little more than a century ago, a Chicago millionaire visited Death Valley after being conned into investing in a non-existent gold mine. Albert Johnson loved the heat and sparse landscape so much, ...

If the history of the American West is one of reinvention, then one of its prime canvasses is the California desert. People have been drawn since time immemorial to that vast emptiness of harsh ...

INCREDIBLY REMOTE PLACES? The Golden State is fabulously full of them. True, our huge megalopolises are well-known, but there are some amazing away-from-it all corners around California that brim with ...

Heavy rains in 2015 caused severe flooding and mudslides at Death Valley National Park. The iconic mansion, Scotty's Castle, was in the line of site and today repairs are still underway.

Despite its outsized reputation as a place of scorching temperatures and endless abandonment, Death Valley National Park is actually fairly hospitable — most of the time, anyway. The nearly ...