Check out this awesome opportunity in death valley: A must for any Star Wars enthusiast!
May the 4th be with you! Star Wars fans looking to celebrate the holiday can geek-out in Death Valley National Park, where scenes from Episodes IV and VI were filmed: R2-D2 rolling across the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes near Stovepipe Wells village; Sand People roaming Desolation Canyon; Jabba the Hutt’s palace in Twenty Mule Team Canyon; Mardji the elephant (aka Bantha) making the Oasis Gardens of Furnace Creek Inn her home during filming (Furnace Creek Resort also provided accommodations for actors and the crew during filming).
Furnace Creek Resort has an exclusive map available for guests, leading them to the filming locations that are easily accessible via car or a short hike.
Author: Len Cline
Len Cline has been a fan of Star Wars since he saw a pirated “A New Hope” with a TV dinner when he was around 3 (He only remembers the Tantive 4 battle), he was in his “Primary Star Wars Introduction Age” (PSWIA for short) (aka. 7 years) when “Revenge of the Sith” came out. Len fell out of the active Star Wars fandom for a few years and explored the majority of science fiction eras (except for the 90’s , which is a big deal (Except for Star Trek) until he was brought back through the Star Wars podcasting community. Len loves to read science fiction (Asimov being his favourite writer) and also enjoys the classics (Dostoyevsky anyone?). He loves all things philosophy (Cogito ergo sum!), politics (De Toqueville and Machiavelli!), and poetry (Mathew Arnold and T.S. Eliot for the win!). He is also an anglophile. Len’s worldview is colored by many things in his life: He’s a devout Catholic and holds his beliefs high, as well as believing that morality and personal responsibility are paramount. Len hopes to move to Europe to attend college for philosophy and/or other social sciences. He then aims to put his studies to good use for the world (hopefully just like Luke Skywalker!).