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...miles northwest of Las Vegas--is a major tourist attraction set in one of the most beautiful and varied terrains known to man. It's filled with Wild West history, year-round social activities and amenities ranging from campgrounds for the RV crowd to the historic Furnace Creek Inn & Ranch Resort for first-class comfort and Old World charm...
...Australia. I ran into a Russian couple on a hiking trail, a German family in the visitor's center and a French family in my hotel. "Because there is no desert in Europe, Europeans come to experience the extremes," says Toni Jepson, manager of public relations for Furnace Creek Inn & Ranch. "They are almost disappointed if they don't feel 120º...
...especially popular with middle-age vacationers and retirees. The 45-and-older set represents the majority of the 500 residents who work as store clerks, waiters, registrars, maids and guides. "The young look for excitement, the older for peace," says Jepson, 60. Jepson and her husband Calvin, 57, the Inn & Ranch's general manager, came to work for only two years but decided to stay indefinitely. "We grew to love the uncluttered lifestyle," she says...
...other major man-made attraction is the Furnace Creek Inn itself, built in the 1920s at the base of the Funeral Mountains. With travertine walkways, red-tiled roof and elegantly understated European decor, the inn soon attracted politicians, businessmen and, in due time, the Hollywood crowd, who used Death Valley as a backdrop for hundreds of movies, television shows and commercials...
Colono had worked as a cook at the Tavern on the Charles restaurant at the Days Inn in Brighton, Mass. for several months, and his brother says he hoped to become a carpenter...