Sunset Campground
Sunset Campground is like a roadside gravel parking lot, lacking much shade but with plenty of RVs.
Sunset Campground is like a roadside gravel parking lot, lacking much shade but with plenty of RVs.
Set on a hillside above Furnace Creek; has shade.
Furnace Creek (crowded, little shade, mostly RVs), Mesquite Spring (near Scotty’s Castle), Emigrant (tents only, near Stovepipe Wells) and Wildrose (high in the Panamint Range) campgrounds are open year-round.
Barely inside the park's western boundary, this charmer of a budget motel is perched at a cooler elevation (2000ft), about 30 miles west of Stovepipe Wells.
In the Panamint Range are three free tent-only campgrounds with about 40 total sites.
At this elegant, mission-style hotel you can count the colors of the desert while unwinding by the spring-fed pool with sweeping valley views.
Like a roadside gravel parking lot, lacking much shade but with plenty of RVs.
Free Emigrant campground (2100ft) has 10 first-come, first-served tent sites; it's cool and has views down to the valley.
An oasis near Scotty's Castle. Open year-round.
Crowded, little shade, mostly RVs; first-come, first-served. Reservations are accepted only for Furnace Creek arrivals between mid-October and mid-May.
Located high in the Panamint Range; no RVs. Open year-round.
Of the park's nine campgrounds, only Furnace Creek accepts reservations from mid-April to mid-October.
Tailor-made for families, this rambling resort has been subjected to a vigorous facelift resulting in rooms dressed in desert-color decor, updated bathrooms and porches with comfortable patio furniture.
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