Features
- The ghost town of Ballarat is located in the Panamint Valley about three miles east of Trona Road, near Happy Canyon.
- A radar station is located near the town of Ballarat at the south end of the valley.
- Multiple sites along SR 190, which crosses the north part of the valley, provide excellent vantage points to view low altitude military aircraft operations.
- Barker Ranch, the last hideout of Charles Manson and the site at which he was arrested in 1969, is located at the southern end of the valley off Goler Canyon Road. Most of the Barker "Family" Ranch was burned down in 2009.
- The valley is an internally drained endorheic basin and its central salt flat/hardpan can contain an ephemeral lake, like it did after unusually heavy rains in the spring of 2005. During pluvial periods of the Pleistocene, inflow from a chain of streams and lakes to the northwest sustained a large lake that overflowed into Lake Manly in Death Valley.
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