Dow Villa

06/27/2024

Final touches! ✨️ Our brand new hot tub will open tomorrow evening, Friday 6/28! 🤩 Hope you enjoy! 🌊

05/19/2024

The pool is now open! The hot tub is still closed for renovations. Keep an eye on our pages for an update in June.

Thanks for your patience, and see you in the pool! 🌊

05/05/2024

We are getting a new hot tub!🤩 The entire pool/spa area is closed for construction right now. The pool will be open by June 1. Stay tuned for an update on the hot tub opening date. Hope you can come visit once our upgrades are complete! 🌊

12/15/2023

Happy days (and nights)! What do you like to celebrate this time of year? Tell us in the comments!

Hope it can be a time of warmth and light for all ✨️🌟

10/25/2023

Borrowed a lift to fix part of our sign that flew off in a crazy wind! Got all spiffy in time for the Film Festival. 🎥🎞📽✔️

Our winter rates start next week, Nov. 1! Only $105+tax for standard Modern Motel rooms and $79+tax for standard Historic Hotel rooms, until April 1, 2024.

Book your stay now; we can't wait to see you! 💫

10/18/2023

Thank you for joining our Dow Hotel's 100-year anniversary celebration! What a great turnout. We were honored to receive recognition from CA State Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil and Inyo County Supervisor Matt Kingsley. ✨️

We hope you enjoyed the party and the Film Festival! If you have any other pictures or videos from our party, please message us - we'd love to see them.

Thank you, everyone, for your support throughout the years.

Cheers to many more!🥂

10/16/2023

😮There's a lake in Death Valley! A few roads have opened as of today. Beautiful.

10/03/2023

You can barely see it, but the first snow has arrived!!❄️ Happy fall🍁🍂. See you at our Hotel's 100-year anniversary party this Thursday at 4 pm! 🥂

08/16/2023

It's a beautiful day at the Dow! Hope everyone is enjoying summer. 🌞

08/14/2023

This is not the first rescue of the season. The conditions are different this year.

On August 5th, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office received notice of an InReach activation from the snowfield before Trail Crest on Mt. Whitney. The subject had lost footing in the snow at the very top of the chute and had slid several hundred feet down the slope. As a result, he had an unusable right ankle and a dinner plate sized scrape on his right chest and side. His partner stayed with him.

After the Sheriff’s Office determined the need for a rescue, the SAR team was called out at 11:30 AM.
With the patient’s location being at 13,800ft elevation and over 7 steep miles from the trailhead, a helicopter from California Highway Patrol was requested, which arrived at Lone Pine airport at 3:30 PM.
Meanwhile, the patient, with help from his hiking partner, slowly crawled down the slope to lose more elevation.

The helicopter determined that it couldn’t perform hoist operations at that altitude, since the air was too thin - hot weather makes it even thinner. Therefore, 2 rescuers were dropped near Trail Camp on 2 separate flights.

The rescuers then ascended to the patient, assessed, splinted and packaged him in a litter and lowered him down the slope to an elevation that was suitable for the helicopter. From there, the patient was evacuated to Lone Pine airport just before 7 PM. After refueling, the helicopter returned to the mountain to pick up the 2 rescuers.

Our thoughts:
- We might sound like a broken record but still can’t stress enough that you need to have an ice axe and solid self-arresting skills before crossing snow slopes like the one just below Trail Crest. Learning how to do that and bringing the extra weight can save your life. The snow is almost gone but there is still enough left to hurt you.
- Remember that the High Sierra is remote. Due to trail mileages and elevations, it can take a long time to get a rescue out here. Over 8 hours passed between accident and reaching higher care.
We wish the patient a speedy recovery and would like to thank for their much-appreciated help.

Inyo SAR is an all-volunteer and unpaid, professional non-profit 501(c)3 organization in cooperation with and under the authority of the Inyo County Sheriff's Office. Providing search and rescue services to Inyo County and its visitors is only possible thanks to donations. Visit inyosar.com/donate

08/09/2023

NPS PRESS RELEASE: Seventeen Consecutive Days Over 120 Degrees in Death Valley National Park

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. – From July 14 through 30th Death Valley National Park at Furnace Creek tied the third longest heat wave in the park’s history, with daily highs of 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.9 Celsius) or more. During the 17-day period, daytime highs were 121 to 128 degrees. Overnight low temperatures were 90 to 102 degrees. This is the longest streak of temperatures in 94 years.

The month of July is often the park’s hottest month of the year. Preliminary data suggests that July 2023 will be the second hottest July on record at an average temperature of 107.6 degrees, second only to 108.1 in 2018.

While data is interesting to read it also has a message. In Death Valley, 7 of the 10 hottest summers on record have come in the last 10 years. Many of the plants and animals that live in Death Valley are living at the edge of survival. Even a slight increase in temperature or change in weather patterns could have negative impact on plant and animal populations.

There may be no better example of these impacts then the famed Great basin bristlecone pines. Bristlecones in the park are at the extreme southwestern edge of their range, making them uniquely vulnerable to climate change. Bristlecones were previously thought to be highly resistant to bark beetle attacks, but reduced annual precipitation, prolonged drought, and warmer winter temperatures have made these trees increasingly vulnerable resulting in a 70% mortality rate on the eastern slopes of Telescope Peak over the past decade.

Travelers to Death Valley should come prepared. Make sure you drink about 4 liters per person per day, eat salty snacks, stay on paved roads and do not hike at lower elevations after 10am.

Planning a visit to Death Valley in summer has a lot to offer with scenic views, photography and exploring the stories of Death Valley at the visitor center and park store. Visit the park website to learn more about safely visiting the park.

–www.nps.gov/deva-

Death Valley National Park is the homeland of the Timbisha Shoshone and preserves natural resources, cultural resources, exceptional wilderness, scenery, and learning experiences within the nation’s largest conserved desert landscape and some of the most extreme climate and topographic conditions on the planet. Learn more at www.nps.gov/deva.

NPS photo: For seventeen days it was 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.9 Celsius) or higher for the daily high at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park.

08/03/2023

FIRE RESTRICTIONS START AUGUST 4

Inyo National Forest will be in Stage I Fire Restrictions starting this Friday, August 4 to protect natural resources and provide for public safety.

The following acts are prohibited during Stage I Fire Restrictions within Inyo National Forest:

🏕 Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire EXCEPT in Forest Service-provided campfire ring or in a standing grill within a Developed Recreation Site listed in Exhibit A. 36 C.F.R. § 261.52(a): www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd1127271.pdf

🚬 Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, within the Developed Recreation Sites listed in Exhibit A, or while stopped in an area at least three feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable material. 36 C.F.R. § 261.52(d).

🔥 Welding, or operating an acetylene or other torch with an open flame. 36 C.F.R. § 261.52(i).

Please note:

Persons with a California Campfire Permit are not exempt from the prohibitions above, however they may use a portable campfire ring/pit, stove, or lantern outside of a Developed Recreation Site, at least 5 feet from any flammable materials, provided that the portable campfire ring/pit, stove, or lantern only burns gas, kerosene, jellied petroleum, or pressurized liquid fuel, and has a shut-off valve.

"Remember. . . Only YOU Can Prevent Wildfires!" ~ Smokey Bear