BARKER RANCH

NAME: Barker Ranch
COUNTY: Inyo
ROADS: 4WD
GRID #(see map): 3
CLIMATE: Rarely snows.
BEST TIME TO VISIT:
Almost anytime... hot in Summer.
COMMENTS: Barely in the Death Valley National Park
REMAINS:
The ranch.

Barker Ranch is historically signifigant because it is the site where Charlie Manson kept his "family," and was captured. The site is now contained within Death Valley National Park, but barely so.
Submitted by David A. Wright
Great Basin Research


Barker Ranch house. September 28, 1998.
Courtesy David A. Wright


Meyers Ranch house. October, 1998. This ranch house has since burned down and was located just a half mile from the Barker Ranch.
Courtesy David A. Wright


Myers Ranch, after mysterious spring 1999 fire
Courtesy Dave Brenner
Death Valley National Park Ranger

 


Inside of Barker Ranch house. September 7, 1996.
Courtesy David A. Wright


Barker Ranch house, the site of Charlie Manson's infamous hideaway after the gruesome Tate-LaBianca murders. It was here that an army of county, state and US police captured Manson and his large "family" of teenage and young adult followers. September 7, 1996.
Courtesy David A. Wright


Pomagranites are ripe, sweet and growing wild at Barker Ranch. September 28, 1998.
Courtesy David A. Wright

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