1/4/2015
1/4/2015
Landmark information
- Location:
Death Valley National Park, on Hwy 190 (pm 111.8), 1.3 mi SE of Furnace Creek - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Existing - Date First Visited:
1/4/2015 - Date Most Recently Visited:
1/4/2015 - GPS Coordinates:
N 36 26.922, W 116 51.155
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Through this natural gateway the Death Valley forty-niners, more than one hundred emigrants from the Middle West, seeking a short cut to gold fields of central California, entered Death Valley, December, 1849. All suffered from thirst and starvation, two contingents passed southward here, the others proceeded northward seeking to escape from region.