Scotty's Castle

Scotty's Castle
(Death Valley Scotty Historic District)
Scotty's Castle
Scotty's Castle is located in California
Scotty's Castle
Scotty's Castle is located in the United States
Scotty's Castle
LocationDeath Valley National Park
Nearest cityBeatty, Nevada, USA
Coordinates37°1′56″N 117°20′29.4″W / 37.03222°N 117.341500°W / 37.03222; -117.341500
Area719.57 hectares (1778.0574 acres)
Built1922 - 1931
ArchitectMartin de Dubovay
EngineerMat Roy Thompson
DesignerCharles Alexander MacNeilledge
Architectural styleProvincial Spanish
(Mexican, Spanish, and Mediterranean influences)
NRHP reference No.78000297[1][2]
Added to NRHPJuly 20, 1978

Scotty's Castle (also known as Death Valley Ranch) is a two-story Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style villa located in the Grapevine Mountains of northern Death Valley in Death Valley National Park, California, US.[3] Scotty's Castle is named for gold prospector Walter E. Scott, although Scott never owned it, nor is it an actual castle.

The ranch is located about 45 miles (72 km) north of Stovepipe Wells, California, via California State Route 190 to Scotty's Castle Road, or about a three-hour drive from Las Vegas, Nevada.[4]

Scotty's Castle was severely damaged by flooding in October 2015, and a fire in 2021 that destroyed the historic garage/workshop that was used as the visitor center. These caused Scotty's Castle to be temporarily closed to the public.[5][6] On December 9, 2023, the official social media accounts of Death Valley National Park announced that they were opening “Scotty’s Castle Flood Recovery Walking Tours” for Winter 2023/2024, running most Sunday mornings from December 10, 2023, through March 10, 2024, despite many of the park's main roads still being closed from damage caused by Hurricane Hilary.[7]

  1. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination form - Death Valley Scotty Historic District". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 20, 1978.
  2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. September 22, 2010.
  3. ^ "Scotty's Castle". Death Valley Conservancy. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference nps was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Flash Floods of 2015". National Park Service. August 23, 2016. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference fire was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "deathvalleynps". Instagram. December 9, 2023. Retrieved December 9, 2023.