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Death Valley National Park west boundary: 57.91: Panamint Valley Road (to SR 178) – Trona, Ridgecrest: 93.21: Scotty's Castle Road – Scotty's Castle, Beatty: 128.33: Death Valley National Park east boundary: Death Valley Junction: 140.69: SR 127 to I-15 / US 95 / State Line Road – Amargosa Valley, Shoshone, Baker, Pahrump, Las Vegas: East ...
Death Valley, California, July 3, 2017, Sentinel-2 true-color satellite image, scale 1:250,000. Map showing the system of once-interconnected Pleistocene lakes in eastern California (USGS) Death Valley is a graben—a downdropped block of land between two mountain ranges. [13]
The highway first appeared on Nevada state highway maps as State Route 58 in 1937. [2] In the 1976 renumbering of Nevada's state highways, the route was reassigned to SR 374. [3] The number change was first seen on state maps in 1978. [4]
Baker is located in the Mojave Desert at the junction of Interstate 15 and SR 127 (Death Valley Road). Its elevation is approximately 930 feet (283.5 m) above sea level, which is much lower than either Barstow or Las Vegas, due to its location at the southern end of the Death Valley geological depression.
SR 127 continues along the eastern edge of Death Valley National Park, passing by Eagle Mountain and the Amargosa River before intersecting SR 190 at Death Valley Junction. The road ends at the California-Nevada border, where Nevada State Route 373 begins. [3] It is the "Lost Highway" featured in David Lynch's film Lost Highway.
The road that is now SR 372 was established by 1937. The unimproved route was incorporated into the westernmost end of the State Route 52 alignment, which had been redefined to extend from the California state line, through Pahrump and the Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest north of Charleston Peak , to State Route 5 southeast of Indian Springs ...
The second segment resumes four miles (6 km) west of Salisberry Pass in the southeasterly part of Death Valley National Park in Inyo County at what had been the former boundary of Death Valley National Monument until 1994. It then meets up with State Route 127. SR 178 then branches northward from SR 127 to the California-Nevada State Line.