Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is one of the hottest places on Earth, along with deserts in the Middle East and the Sahara.
Death Valley is the West at its most extreme. An isolated 150-mile-long finger of wilderness, it’s the hottest spot in North America.
With every passing moment, striated rocks shift shades, emerging from predawn violet and slate to glowing pinks and golds as the sun peeks over the ridge to the east.
🚘The most popular drive in Death Valley is the Badwater Road. If you visit the Devils Golf Course, Badwater, and take Artists Drive on the return trip back to Highway 190 it should take about 1½ hours round-trip.
Vast and surreal, dry and hot and wild, Death Valley stretches far enough to let your mind run to thoughts of deep time.