From Baker, you make the drive 82 miles north along CA-127 - it’s here where you’ll find the hotel in all its dust and semi-glory. There is not much there unless you like expensive gasoline, greasy food, or the engine music of tractor-trailers at extended idle. This is fast enough to feel dangerous, but slow enough to blend in among the passing glint of wild-eyed gamblers fixated on the lights of Las Vegas.īreak the law, I say, but don’t break it worse than the folks beside you.įrom Victorville, it is 94.5 miles to Baker, a former railroad town of some 700 or so inhabitants.

Me, I keep my speed within five miles-per-hour of the posted limit. A speeding ticket will set you back in the hundreds of dollars. The hotel claims to be haunted and the Amargosa Opera House is a must-see. Watch your speedometer closely many a do-gooder have been lassoed by the pendulum flash atop a California Highway Patrolmen’s cruiser. Though most of the buildings are gone, the town is still a draw today, thanks to the Amargosa Hotel. After reading the history and touring the opera house, I decided to stay the night.

Interstate 15, from points west near Los Angeles, is the main thoroughfare to Las Vegas, Nevada. Recommended Reviews - Amargosa Opera House and Hotel Map 608 Death Valley Junction. place: The Amargosa Opera House Hotel, at Death Valley Junction. BMWs and late model sedans jockey for pole position among mini-vans, travel-trailers, and the ceaseless caravan of big rigs moving consumer and wholesale goods for this fine, materialist country. The interstate - at whatever hour - is filled with all sorts of car and truck traffic.

Amargosa opera house history