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Currently the Oasis at Death Valley, formerly known as the Inn at Furnace Creek. I'm not sure when the name changed.Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Rick
Currently the Oasis at Death Valley, formerly known as the Inn at Furnace Creek. I'm not sure when the name changed.
Rick
If I tell you, then it will pretty much spill the beans!
What I knew as the Furnace Creek Inn is now called Oasis at Death Valley. I think it was also called the Inn at Death Valley. I had to look up when the last name change was and it looks like 2017.
Furnace Creek Ranch is now the Ranch at Death Valley.
Our first time to Death Valley National Park we had not planned stopping here. We were booked for two night in the cabins inside Zion National Park. As we left Bryce and headed to Zion we had planned to visit Cedar Breaks first. As we left Bryce there were a few snow flakes as we headed up 14 towards Cedar Breaks it was a blizzard and we had to turn back for Hwy 89. It was so cold in Zion that we decided to leave a day early and booked a night at the the Furnace Creek Ranch. OH...did I mention it was Memorial Day weekend in May 1975. We were lucky it was only 80 which is cool for that time of the year in Death Valley!
There was a lot of construction going on when we were there in March. Looks like they were building bungalows near the Ranch
Utahtea
Do you see what I see?
This next set is a place with a name. It's nowhere near as elegant as the Oasis at Death Valley, but with just a little advance planning, you CAN stay here:
Where am I?
I have one more picture that will pretty well nail it if y'all need another clue!
Rick
I found it. That "place" looks amazing but we've never been! We have been to the near by Rockhound "place".This next set is a place with a name. It's nowhere near as elegant as the Oasis at Death Valley, but with just a little advance planning, you CAN stay here:
Where am I?
I have one more picture that will pretty well nail it if y'all need another clue!
Rick
But since I googled it...I'll just give my clue.
Utahtea....I'm on a roll! ;)
Still need a place name!
Well, since nobody has come up with an actual place name yet, I'll toss out one more seriously convoluted clue to go along with Utahtea's "Roll":
Does everybody remember the Jefferson Airplane? They were a reasonably famous San Francisco Rock and Roll band back in the late '60's, at the height of the hippie era. They never had a top 40 hit, and weren't making much money, so they reinvented themselves as the Jefferson Starship and put a different spin on their music. The final version of the group called themselves simply "Starship," and in the mid-'80's they put out a song that has been classified by many reviewers as the worst song in the entire history of rock and roll, a total sellout by this once innovative group, and a song which, as it turned out, was also the biggest hit that the group ever produced, in any of its incarnations.
I'n talking about this song:
If you remember the song well enough to remember the chorus, you'll have your clue!
For everybody else, here's another picture type clue:
Good luck finding this one on Google. The trick is in knowing what to call it!
Rick
Ha, ha...cute on the song!Well, since nobody has come up with an actual place name yet, I'll toss out one more seriously convoluted clue to go along with Utahtea's "Roll":
Does everybody remember the Jefferson Airplane? They were a reasonably famous San Francisco Rock and Roll band back in the late '60's, at the height of the hippie era. They never had a top 40 hit, and weren't making much money, so they reinvented themselves as the Jefferson Starship and put a different spin on their music. The final version of the group called themselves simply "Starship," and in the mid-'80's they put out a song that has been classified by many reviewers as the worst song in the entire history of rock and roll, a total sellout by this once innovative group, and a song which, as it turned out, was also the biggest hit that the group ever produced, in any of its incarnations.
I'n talking about this song:
If you remember the song well enough to remember the chorus, you'll have your clue!
For everybody else, here's another picture type clue:
Good luck finding this one on Google. The trick is in knowing what to call it!
Rick
Everyone else, just let me know when you guys want me to put you out of your misery! LOL!
Utahtea
Ok...I'm spilling the beans because I'm ready to do a new "Where am I". This is City of Rocks State Park, New Mexico. Starship lyrics are to "We built this city" clue wasWell, since nobody has come up with an actual place name yet, I'll toss out one more seriously convoluted clue to go along with Utahtea's "Roll":
Does everybody remember the Jefferson Airplane? They were a reasonably famous San Francisco Rock and Roll band back in the late '60's, at the height of the hippie era. They never had a top 40 hit, and weren't making much money, so they reinvented themselves as the Jefferson Starship and put a different spin on their music. The final version of the group called themselves simply "Starship," and in the mid-'80's they put out a song that has been classified by many reviewers as the worst song in the entire history of rock and roll, a total sellout by this once innovative group, and a song which, as it turned out, was also the biggest hit that the group ever produced, in any of its incarnations.
I'n talking about this song:
If you remember the song well enough to remember the chorus, you'll have your clue!
For everybody else, here's another picture type clue:
Good luck finding this one on Google. The trick is in knowing what to call it!
Rick
We built this city on rock and roll
It looks like a great place to camp so I'm going to keep it in mind for our next trip to New Mexico.
Utahtea...now to post my "Where am I" before someone beats me to it! ;)
So keeping on the theme of rocks....here's my entry. If the pictures aren't enough, I have clues I can give and a couple more picture that would probably give it away!
Where am I?
Bonus points for the significance of the area.
Utahtea
Well, needless to say you're dead on the money, and yes, the City of Rocks has a very cool campground, run by the State of New Mexico, with campsites that back right up to these amazing rock formations. I really wanted to include the City of Rocks in my book. It's close to Silver City, and Scenic Side Trip #2, the route that starts in Las Cruces and takes you to the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument? That Side Trip passes right through Silver City before ending in Lordsburg (back on I-10).
The problem was, the route was already a full day of driving, and adding that State Park would have made it at least two hours longer. My solution (which I thought was pretty clever): City of Rocks was grafted to the route as part of an optional add-on, a loop out of Silver City that also includes the Chino Copper Mine; it's a perfect little "extra" at the end of the route for folks who elect to stay the night in Silver City (highly recommended), or (needless to say) for campers who'd like to bed down in the City of Rocks! I used that "optional add-on" gimmick on several of the routes in the book. It was a good way to include attractions that didn't quite fit my format, because (just as in this case) they added too much time to the route. Scenic Side Trips are pretty darned flexible, and that was my intention. I show you what's out there, a little something for just about everyone, and I show you the best way to connect the dots. The rest is up to you, because only thing carved in stone is--the City of Rocks! (Ha!)
Rick
This one picture looks really familiar; I know I've seen this formation somewhere!
But I, for one, will need at least one more clue to pin it down.
Rick
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