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Furnace Creek Campground Temporary Closure
Furnace Creek Campground will be CLOSED for construction starting April 16, 2013. Texas Springs Campground will remain open for summer camping in the Furnace Creek Area. More »
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Scotty's Castle Fire Closure
Due to a fire at Scotty's Castle on May 20, the Scotty's Castle Visitor Center is closed, tours are cancelled, and power and phones are out. The road through Grapevine Canyon is closed. The castle may re-open on Sunday May 26.
Timbisha Shoshone Tribe
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The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe are the native people of Death Valley. Western Shoshone and Paiute people once occupied several villages scattered throughout the region, but today only the village of Timbisha at Furnace Creek remains within what is now Death Valley National Park. In January, 2000 the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act was implemented, officially providing land in trust to the Tribe on which the Tribe can live permanently and govern the Tribe's affairs within the ancestral homeland of the Tribe outside and within the Park. Today a partnership between the tribe and the National Park Service ensures resources within the park and their traditional homeland are protected and enhanced by cooperative activities. Timbisha Shoshone Tribe's official website Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act (S.2102.ENR) January 24,2000 An overview of the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe just prior to the Homeland Act John Reynold's preface to the "Draft Secretarial Report to Congress" on the establishment of a Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Homeland Pauline Esteves' preface to the "Draft Secretarial Report to Congress" on the establishment of a Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Homeland
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Did You Know?
Telescope Peak in Death Valley National Park was named by Dr. Samuel George in 1861. After climbing the 11,049 foot peak, Dr. George said that he could see so far that it reminded him of looking through a telescope.