offer the best vantage point, at least from a people-watching perspective. The sight lines down into the tall, busy bar and restaurant are unobstructed, and the clatter from below rises to the tin roof like a light fog. From up here, you can take in the many details of the space: the hanging antlers, the long underlit bar, and every inch of the faded off-white wallpaper that runs from corner to corner.
And yet there is life here, and there has been for thousands of years, from historic native tribes that continue to call this sun-baked corner of the world home to generations of old miners who scoured the sour ground for bits of wealth. Zoom in closely enough today, and you’ll see a huge swath of glowing green right in the center of all that sun. Welcome to the Oasis.
It takes a lot of human power to create miracles in the desert, or at least the perception of miracles. The reality is that in addition to acting as a hospitality complex for a ceaseless wave of Death Valley visitors, the Oasis is also its own actual town, populated by some 300 year-round working residents who cut the golf course grass, serve beers inside the two-story saloon, pour coffee for diners at the breakfast buffet, and generally scratch out a life at the livable edge of the planet.
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