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  2. Racetrack Playa - Wikipedia

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    Racetrack playa is approximately 3 miles long and 1.2 miles wide and is located at a height of 3708 feet in a north-south valley east of the Panamint Range within Death Valley National Park. It receives only 3 inches of annual precipitation and is bounded on all sides by north-south ranges rising 1500 to 2000 feet.

  3. Badwater Ultramarathon - Wikipedia

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    The Badwater Ultramarathon is a 135-mile (217 km) ultramarathon race starting at −282 feet (−86 m) [1] below sea level in the Badwater Basin, in California's Death Valley, and ending at an elevation of 8,360 feet (2,550 m) at Whitney Portal, the trailhead to Mount Whitney. It takes place annually in mid-July when the weather is the most ...

  4. Death Valley Railroad - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Death Valley Railroad running from Death Valley Junction all the way up to the mines at Ryan near Colemanite. The Death Valley Railroad (DVRR) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad that operated in California's Death Valley to carry borax with the route running from Ryan, California, and the mines at Lila C, both located just east of Death Valley National Park, to Death Valley ...

  5. Where is Death Valley? How a California desert kills - AOL

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    A recent death in Death Valley, where a motorcyclist succumbed to extreme heat amid record-breaking temperatures, highlights the perilous nature of one of the four major deserts in North America.

  6. Death Valley - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat ...

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    In eastern California's sizzling desert, a high of 128 F (53.3 C) was recorded over the weekend at Death Valley National Park, where a visitor, who was not identified, died Saturday from heat ...

  8. Sailing stones - Wikipedia

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    On May 30, 2013, the Los Angeles Times reported that park officials were looking into the theft of several of the rocks from the Death Valley National Park. [ 20 ] In August 2016, around 16 km (10 miles) of tire tracks were left in the playa by someone driving around it illegally. [ 21 ]

  9. Places of interest in the Death Valley area - Wikipedia

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    ˌ b ɛr. i / [1] is a promontory and tourist viewpoint in the Panamint Range, within Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, eastern California. The point's elevation reaches 6,433 ft and is named for Jean Pierre "Pete" Aguereberry, a Basque miner who was born in 1874, emigrated from France in 1890, and lived at and worked the nearby Eureka ...