This nearly five square miles of dunes can reach as high as 500 feet, and can provide for quite the off-roading experience. Other than the mammoth that is Death Valley, the Amargosa Valley provides a true desert experience. The candy store opens at 6am and doesn’t close until late at night, but there’s also a Denny’s and Stagecoach Casino across the parking lot for some savoury options on either side of the sun.Īs reminiscent as Beatty is of the old, wild American West, it is however, still a stopover town for travellers with a lot to do around. They also offer quite a quirky selection of cricket, grasshopper and scorpions enclosed in sugar candy, among other creepy-crawly variants. Think of any name-brand candy, chocolate, or gummy and this store sells it by the pound. This is the largest candy store in Nevada, and it shows. The Beatty Museum and Historic Society has been preserving the history of the town and the neighbouring mining district, and has a collection of documents, books and photographs tracing their journey.Īs for us, the Death Valley Nut & Candy Company ranked the highest on the list. Visitors can enjoy the old, wild charm of the Atomic Inn and the Sourdough Saloon, and there are also a number of RV parks if you’re in it for the long haul. But that’s not all this sleepy town has to offer. Beatty sits in the heart of a confluence of natural wonders and ghost towns from the time of the mining boom.īailey’s Hot Springs, for instance, is one of the popular attractions and is located at the former railway depot site. Roughly seven miles from Death Valley National Park-the largest national park in the US, outside of Alaska-this rural town was founded in 1904 as a part of the Bullfrog Mining District in the Mojave Desert. The idea is to take you back to a time “when the West was wild, and the Cowboys wilder!”Ī small town along the Nevada-California border with just over 1,000 residents, Beatty is often known as the ‘Gateway to Death Valley’. The Beatty Cowboys are a group of-mostly senior-men and women, who spend time recreating the Old West, armed with floozies, petticoats, gunfights and all.
Ratings for alternate listings (with a tour versus without) were aggregated to understand the impact of virtual tours on interest in the featured business.As the crowd burst out laughing, the cowboy and Sheriff Davis took a bow.After viewing each listing, respondents were instructed to rate their interest in booking a reservation.
Note: Presentation of alternate listings were randomized evenly and consistently throughout the field.1 listing with a virtual tour + 1 listing without a virtual tour.1 hotel listing + 1 restaurant listing and.Respondents were asked to view one of the different versions for each business (in a randomized order).Different versions of a local business listing (one for a hotel, the other for a restaurant) were created to include basic info, photos and/or a virtual tour (the same media were used to create each version).An online survey was conducted with consumers who had searched online for a restaurant or hotel within the previous 30 days (using any device).Ĭollected between July 21st and August 2nd, 2015.