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The Saline Valley Warm Springs, as they are called, have become controversial in recent years.

The improvements would have violated Park Service policy if they had taken place today, and nudity is against park regulations.

There has been compromise so far ; a park host is always on duty, visitors are limited to 30 days per year, and the springs do not appear on any official NPS map.

A " clothing optional " policy is still permitted at the springs, but nudity is frowned upon elsewhere at the site.

The Timbisha Shoshone Indian tribe, which was displaced from the area in 1933, says it objects to the nudity at the springs, and will shut them down if it ever regains ownership of the valley.