Blue Marble Bathtub Death Valley

In the meantime i have a link for you with pics gps waypoints and a trail description if you re attempting to find it s location.

Blue marble bathtub death valley.

Marble bath copy link facebook twitter reddit flipboard pocket. Marble bath in death valley national park california. The first 4 pictures are the real marble bath the second 3 are the installed marble bath in death valley california. Not sure if this is what you wanted from your original.

Before the area became part of death valley national park to validate the incorrectly marked maps in a good natured way a desert explorer named wendel moyer recruited a few friends and rounded up an old bathtub and a load of blue marbles. Yes another death valley area mystery. Blue marble bathtub in death valley. Click here and here to learn more about the story of the marble bath.

They installed the tub in the misidentified location marked as marble bath on the erroneous maps. We spent wednesday night just below the marble bathtub during the haboob. Started by herr42 nov 11 2007 06 45 pm. See the blue marbles entry for more babble of the bath.

Indeed there seems to be no marble or limestone outcrops anywhere near. Trail conditions weather and land ownership change constantly and as always everyone must take responsibility for themselves both for safety and complying with the laws of the. Blue marble bath death valley national park. Popular lore has it that a professor in years past brought an actual bathtub up here and filled it with blue marbles to give the place a reason for having the name.

Backcountry explorers atlas obscura user been here. But if you look into the shallow canyon leading east immediately after dropping down from the pass toward saline valley you will find an actual cast iron bathtub filled with blue marbles. Oh by the way we don t claim to be experts in anything other than having a fun time exploring. I have always felt that the sites the park service advertises are fitting of what generally lies in the stark mountains and yet that the very best is out there unadvertised discoered only by those willing to find a side of nature that is not developed or mapped but in the case of marble canyon this fine example.

I m still awaiting a reply to whether the blue marble bath is still there. We strongly support both tread lightly and the blue ribbon coalition. As you go over steel pass road in death valley national park between the eureka sand dunes and upper warm springs there is an interesting oddity to be found if you know where to look. Edited by lighthawk 31 december 2017 05 23 pm.

We must have just missed you. Photo explanation to follow in a future post. And the story behind this tub goes something like this.