Xanterra also operates the Stovepipe Wells, California motel.

After a snack at the general store in Stovepipe Wells I headed back up 190, out of the valley.

And Stovepipe Wells, which is rudimentary to the point of high camp.

I dine at Stovepipe Wells the following evening and am swept back to the 50's and the first road trip my family took cross-country.

Head to Stovepipe Wells, one of several oases in the park and a good place to spend the night.

There's only one lonely road to this ghost town, spurring from State Highway 190, 75km southwest of Stovepipe Wells.

Tourism blossomed in the 1920s, when resorts were built around Stovepipe Wells and Furnace Creek.

The first documented tourist facilities in Death Valley were a set of tent houses built in the 1920s where Stovepipe Wells is now located.

Sand dunes also exist in Death Valley near Stovepipe Wells.

About the day after tomorrow you might drive over to Stovepipe Wells and call the sheriff.