#Amargosa opera house and hotel haunted full

It is amazing inside, and we were treated to a two-song piano concert by a concert pianist who happened to be visiting that day. Our tour of the Opera House ($5 donation) was well worth it. About half of the building has not been renovated, as the 18 rooms open all have private baths and the closed-off rooms do not.

#Amargosa opera house and hotel haunted full

They were nearly full the two nights we were there, with many foreign tourists. The Amargosa Hotel - both the opera house and the hotel were constructed in the 1920s by the Pacific Borax Mining company, who built the town to accommodate its mine workers this structure included a hospital and a morgue abandoned in the 50's and vacant. I'm not sure how long it has been since the Hotel re-opened, but I hope the owners can make a success of it. I slept like a log, but my travel companion did not! After I got home i learned that the Amargosa is supposedly one of the 'most haunted' hotels in the Us, for what that's worth. No ghost cats, although there is supposedly one 'haunting' the hotel, along with an adult male ghost and a juvenile female ghost. Just one resident dog and two resident cats. Thank you, Dave! Did not see any peacocks. This may be the ghost of a young girl who drowned in a bathtub in 1967. Enjoy some photos of the hotel and surrounding structures:įormer garage and gas station across the highway from the hotel. In Room 24 of the Amargosa Hotel, guests have repeatedly reported hearing the sounds of a crying child during the night, when no children are staying at the hotel. Highly recommend the hotel to anyone planning to visit the Death Valley area.

The name of dancer/actress/artist Marta Becket figures prominently in the town's history and why there is still a functioning opera house in a town that for all intents and purposes has ceased to exist. The history of this town, which was originally a rail junction and is still a road junction (CA state routes 190 and 127), is too long to go into here but is fascinating, if one wishes to look it up. Others commute from Amargosa Valley or Pahrump NV. One of the highlights of the week was spending two nights at the wonderful Amargosa Hotel and Opera House in the near-ghost town of Death Valley Junction, resident population 3 in winter, 1 in summer. Just returned from a week-long trip through four of California's iconic National Parks (Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Yosemite, and Death Valley) and the Mojave National Preserve.