Explore Death Valley National Park: Hike dunes, wander rainbow badlands, and discover salt flats in California’s most diverse ...

Two men who got lost in Death Valley National Park and walked for miles to find help could be facing charges and fines for allegedly driving across a salt flat, officials said Tuesday.

Death Valley National Park also holds a lot of records. Most visitors know it as the hottest place in the U.S.; however, it is also home to the lowest elevation in the U.S. During the winter ...

Here’s everything you need to know about visiting Death Valley National Park. ... The Badwater Basin salt flats sprawl nearly 200 square miles and mark the former site of Lake Manly, ...

Thriving in ‘hell on Earth’ Death Valley, it turns out, has a little Las Vegas-style hype in its history. The ancestral homelands of the Timbisha Shoshone, the area got its name from a squad ...

Tourists following a GPS made a wrong turn in a California park and tried to drive through salt flats while lost, park officials said. The two men got lost in Death Valley National Park on July 4 ...

Death Valley's salt flats and Badwater Basin seen from Artists Drive. (Natalie Burt/Special to the Las Vegas Review-Journal) As long as temperatures don't soar too high, March and April are good ...

Death Valley will reopen access to Furnace Creek, the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Zabriskie Point and Dante’s View, and Badwater. But many roads will be closed.

The sun rises beyond the sprawling temporary lake at Badwater Basin salt flats, caused by flooding in August from Tropical Storm Hilary on October 23, 2023, in Death Valley National Park, California.

Salt flats around the world — such as these in Badwater Basin in Death Valley, Calif. — form polygons of similar size. Rudy Sulgan/The Image Bank/Getty Images Plus ...