Death Valley, California
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- Artist's Palette — Geology · Death Valley, CA
Artist's Palette is a multicolored hillside on one-way Artist Drive in Death Valley National Park. Iron oxides paint yellows and reds, manganese adds pinks, …
- Badwater Basin — Natural · Death Valley, CA
Badwater Basin is North America's lowest land point at about 282 feet below sea level, a broad salt pan of polygonal crusts on the Death Valley floor. A shor…
- Chloride City — Ghost Town · Death Valley, CA
One of Death Valley’s earliest mining camps on the Funeral Mountains crest near Chloride Cliff—scattered ruins and workings above a rough dirt road, with cli…
- Cottonwood Springs (Death Valley) — Wildlife · Death Valley, CA
A named perennial spring oasis in Cottonwood Canyon on the west side of Death Valley, where cottonwoods and streamside vegetation create rare desert wildlife…
- Dantes View — Natural · Death Valley, CA
Panoramic overlook 5,476 ft above Badwater Basin — one of the most dramatic elevation contrasts in North America. You can see the entire salt flat and Telesc…
- Death Valley Bighorn Habitat — Wildlife · Death Valley, CA
The Panamint Mountains hold one of the largest desert bighorn sheep populations in the US. Best viewing at dawn near Wildrose and Telescope Peak trailheads. …
- Desolation Canyon — Natural · Death Valley, CA
Colorful badlands canyon on the west flank of the Black Mountains south of Furnace Creek—an unmarked NPS cross-country route with Artist’s Palette–style mine…
- Devils Cornfield — Natural · Death Valley, CA
Roadside Death Valley National Park landscape of tall arrowweed (Pluchea sericea) clumps that early travelers likened to shocks of corn. Wind-scoured sand pi…
- Devils Golf Course — Geology · Death Valley, CA
Surreal landscape of jagged salt pinnacles up to 18 inches tall formed as salt crystallizes upward through the playa surface. On quiet days you can hear the …
- Fall Canyon — Natural · Death Valley, CA
Official Death Valley National Park day hike into a deep Grapevine Mountains canyon of banded Bonanza King dolomite, polished narrows, and a terminal dryfall…
- Golden Canyon & Red Cathedral — Natural · Death Valley, CA
Classic Death Valley hike through golden badlands leading to the dramatic red cliffs of Red Cathedral. One of the park’s most popular and visually striking c…
- Harmony Borax Works — Historic · Death Valley, CA
Ruins of the operation that launched the famous 20-mule team borax wagons in 1883. Original processing vats and equipment remain near Furnace Creek in an eas…
- Ibex Dunes — Natural · Death Valley, CA
Tall star and linear dunes stacked against the Ibex Hills in the remote southeast corner of Death Valley National Park. Quieter alternative to Mesquite Flat …
- Leadfield — Ghost Town · Death Valley, CA
One of the great mining frauds of Death Valley — promoter C.C. Julian sold thousands of worthless claims before the scheme collapsed in 1926. The town lasted…
- Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes — Natural · Death Valley, CA
Most accessible dunes in Death Valley, rising to 100 ft near Stovepipe Wells. Star, transverse, and barchan dune types all present. Dawn photography is extra…
- Mesquite Spring (Death Valley) — Wildlife · Death Valley, CA
Developed NPS campground and spring oasis at the north end of Death Valley National Park, near the Grapevine Mountains approach to Scotty’s Castle. The named…
- Mosaic Canyon — Natural · Death Valley, CA
Near Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley National Park, Mosaic Canyon opens from a gravel parking area into polished Noonday Dolomite narrows and natural breccia…
- Natural Bridge Canyon — Natural · Death Valley, CA
Short canyon walk off Badwater Road to a large natural bridge cut by flash-flood erosion through layered Death Valley sediments. The trailhead sits at the en…
- Racetrack Playa — Sailing Stones — Natural · Death Valley, CA
Perfectly flat dry lakebed where rocks slide across clay leaving trails up to 820 ft long. The mechanism — thin winter ice sheets pushed by wind — was only c…
- Saratoga Spring — Wildlife · Death Valley, CA
Remote reed-fringed oasis in the far southern arm of Death Valley National Park. Spring-fed pools and wetlands support Saratoga Springs pupfish (endemic), mi…
- Schwab — Ghost Town · Death Valley, CA
Short-lived 1906–07 gold-camp townsite in Echo Canyon on the Funeral Mountains side of Death Valley National Park—named for steel magnate Charles M. Schwab’s…
- Scotty's Castle — Historic · Death Valley, CA
Spanish Mediterranean mansion built in the 1920s by Chicago millionaire Albert Johnson. A 2015 flash flood buried a 1900s automobile in sediment and severely…
- Striped Butte — Geology · Death Valley, CA
Isolated banded peak rising from remote Butte Valley in southern Death Valley National Park—classic multi-colored sedimentary stripes visible for miles. Reac…
- Telescope Peak — Natural · Death Valley, CA
Highest point in Death Valley National Park at 11,049 ft. A strenuous hike with alpine views overlooking the lowest point in North America — a 11,300 ft vert…
- Titus Canyon Geology Drive — Geology · Death Valley, CA
Titus Canyon Road is a rough one-way high-clearance drive from Nevada Highway 374 west into Death Valley, cutting 700 million years of rock from Precambrian …
- Twenty Mule Team Canyon — Geology · Death Valley, CA
One-way unpaved scenic drive through yellow-and-brown badlands of eroded Furnace Creek Formation mudstone just east of Zabriskie Point. Named for the histori…
- Ubehebe Crater — Geology · Death Valley, CA
Half-mile wide maar volcano that last erupted just 300-800 years ago. A phreatomagmatic explosion hurled rock miles across the desert floor. Little Hebe Crat…
- Zabriskie Point — Natural · Death Valley, CA
Zabriskie Point overlooks golden badlands carved from ancient lake beds in Death Valley National Park. Sunrise lights the ridgelines amber and orange; a shor…