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Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California – Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka Valley and most of Saline Valley . The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin ...
Devils Hole is a geologic formation located in a detached unit of Death Valley National Park and surrounded by the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, in Nye County, Nevada, in the Southwestern United States . Devils Hole is habitat for the only naturally occurring population of the endangered Devils Hole pupfish ( Cyprinodon diabolis ).
Dante's View. Coordinates: 36.2206°N 116.7264°W. August 1982 view from Dante's View, Devil Golf Course, salt shoreline. Dante's View is a viewpoint terrace at 1,669 m (5,476 ft) height, on the north side of Coffin Peak, along the crest of the Black Mountains, overlooking Death Valley. Dante's View is about 25 km (16 mi) south of Furnace Creek ...
Amargosa River. Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is thought to be the hottest place on Earth during summer. [ 3] Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. [ 1]
Lovelock Cave. / 39.96250°N 118.55833°W / 39.96250; -118.55833. Lovelock Cave (NV-Ch-18) is a North American archaeological site previously known as Sunset Guano Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Loud Site 18. The cave is about 150 feet (46 m) long and 35 feet (11 m) wide. [ 1] Lovelock Cave is one of the most important classic sites of the ...
Ash Meadows habitat, in the Amargosa Desert. / 36.42500°N 116.33333°W / 36.42500; -116.33333. The Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a protected wildlife refuge located in the Amargosa Valley of southern Nye County, in southwestern Nevada. It is directly east of Death Valley National Park, and is 90 mi (140 km) west-northwest of ...
July 20, 1978. Scotty's Castle (also known as Death Valley Ranch) is a two-story Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style villa located in the Grapevine Mountains of northern Death Valley in Death Valley National Park, California, US. [3] Scotty's Castle is named for gold prospector Walter E. Scott, although Scott never owned it, nor ...
July 9, 2024 at 6:09 PM. DEATH VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park ...