Death Valley National Park
California Desert
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 3373063
- Established
- 1994
parks detail
- Hook
- The hottest, driest, lowest national park — Badwater Basin sits 282 feet below sea level
- More
- The Timbisha Shoshone have lived here for a millennium, and their name for the valley is tümpisa — the borax wagons and '49er lore came much later. Come November–March, dawn at Zabriskie or Mesquite Dunes; summer visits are genuinely dangerous and rangers mean the heat warnings.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 36.46, -116.87