What is the lawless city in Death Valley?

Slab City is unincorporated and took its name from concrete slabs left behind after the Marine Corps abandoned the camp (it was a World War Two Marine Corps training camp called Camp Dunlap). By 1956, the Marines had abandoned the base and removed the buildings except for the concrete slabs.



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Panamint City is a ghost town deep in the Panamint Mountains of Death Valley. It's historic, well preserved and hard to reach. More than 130 years after Panamint City's peak as a silver boomtown, it looks a lot like a post-modern apocalyptic summer camp.

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The Kingdom of Shin-au-av: For centuries, legends of an underground city and an ancient race in Death Valley have been told in the Paiute Legend of the Kingdom of Shin-au-av. This place, meaning “God's Land” or “Ghost Land,” is sacred to the Paiute.

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Located in southern Nevada, the “hole” itself is a fissure in the earth's surface that split open 60,000 years ago to reveal an astonishing underworld: a water-filled limestone cavern. Ironically, beneath the hottest, driest place in the Western Hemisphere stretches a vast aquifer system.

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Does anyone live in Death Valley? Death Valley is the historic homeland of the Timbasha Shoshone. “Some members of the tribe still live within Death Valley, and their village is in Furnace Creek,” Wines said. “It's right here in the center of the park.

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