Gower Gulch (Death Valley)

Gower Gulch is visible from Zabriskie Point and is about one and a half miles long.

Gower Gulch is named after Harry P. Gower, an official of the Pacific Coast Borax Company and co-owner of the Furnace Creek Inn and Ranch, before Death Valley became a national monument.

Gower Gulch was mined in after the 1880s, when a 1+1⁄2-mile-long (2.4 km) road starting at the northern side of Zabriskie Point was built by the Pacific Coast Borax Company.

This road allowed wagons and autos to reach the ten borax mine claims in the gulch.

In 1941 a 5-foot-deep (1.5 m) Furnace Creek-Gower Gulch Flood diversion channel was blasted upstream from Zabriskie Point to divert flood waters from the Furnace Creek Wash and the resorts into Gower Gulch.