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Death Valley '49ers Encampment
Death Valley, CA · Arts & Culture
- When
- October 29 – November 1, 2026
- Where
- Furnace Creek, Death Valley National Park · Death Valley · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A multi day desert gathering at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park commemorating the Gold Rush pioneers who crossed the valley in 1849. Held annually since 1949, it includes live music, guest historians and a veterans tribute.
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- Death Valley '49ers Encampmentsame spot
A multi day desert gathering at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park commemorating the Gold Rush pioneers who crossed the valley in 1849.
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This gathering of the Death Valley '49ers, a nonprofit founded in 1949, commemorates the pioneer wagon trains that crossed Death Valley.
A gold camp that had 5,000 people, concrete buildings, an opera house and electric light within three years, and was effectively empty by 1916 after the 1907 panic cut its credit.