10 Years Later, This Iconic National Park Attraction Is Reopening to the Public

A wealthy couple. A notorious conman. And a mansion built in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth—Death Valley. It’s no wonder that more than 100,000 people once visited Death Valley Ranch, a.k.a. Scotty’s Castle, every year to take tours of the 1920s-era home, which still had its original furnishings. 

But when the area surrounding the home experienced a year's worth of rain in five hours on October 18, 2015, causing “a flash flood of mud and rocks … flowing at an estimated...