2 Best Restaurants in Shoshone, Death Valley National Park

Built in the 1930s, the diner-esque Crowbar—where antique photos adorn the walls and mining equipment stands in the corners—serves enormous helpings of regional dishes such as steak and taco salads. Home-baked fruit pies make fine desserts, and frosty beers are surefire thirst quenchers. Grab a table in the air-conditioned saloon or on the patio, where you can watch time tick by on the streets of Shoshone. 

Built as Randsburg's Drug Store in 1896, this popular biker and family spot is one of the area's few surviving ghost-town buildings with original furnishings intact, such as a tin ceiling, light fixtures, and a 1904 marble-and-stained-glass soda fountain. You can still enjoy a phosphate soda from that same fountain, or lunch on slow-roasted barbecue sandwiches and blueberry milk shakes along with chili, hamburgers, and breakfast.