Also known as Jayhawker's Well or McLean's Spring, this was the place where on December 27, 1849, the Jayhawkers, the "Mississippi Boys," and the Briers learned from their scouts that no probable wagon route lay ahead, leaving them only the alternative of burning their wagons and drying ox meat. On December 28th the Georgians, or Bug Smashers, arrived, and after previously drying all the ox meat they could carry on their backs, they gave their remaining oxen to the Briers. The Georgians camped one night and then set out on foot up a canyon on Tucki Mountain, past the Skidoo site, and over Towne Pass. On December 30th the remaining emigrants left the bulk of their possessions there and walked past where Stovepipe Wells Hotel now stands and up the alluvial fan toward snow-capped Towne Pass. The spring is named for Mr. McLean, who supervised posting of Auto Club signs in Death Valley during the 1920's.