It served Panamint Valley and Death Valley as a miner's supply and recreation center. Ballarat's colorful life ebbed with the closing of the post office in 1917. A corner of the town site was sectioned off as a residential mobile home and trailer park and electrical hook-ups were installed. Above is the first unit of your new mobile home park. Each spacious mobile home site is furnished water, electricity, gas and sewer connections.
Gas lights throw a soft glow over the area at night.
The administration building contains a laundry with automatic washers and dryers, restrooms and showers, and a well-stocked small grocery store. Ballarat offers you a variety of activities. Rockhounds, artists, photographers, hikers will all find much of interest near or at hand. And those of you who just want to breathe clean air and look at the ever-changing colors of the surrounding mountains will be happy too. Close by are many interesting areas.