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Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America and the United States, with a depth of 282 ft (86 m) below sea level. [1] [2] Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, is only 84.6 miles (136 km) to the northwest. [3]
Alexandria Klein, left, and Laura Klein ride Thursday in Badwater Basin, a famously dry salt flat at the bottom of Death Valley National Park Rangers aren't sure how long the lake will be there.
The Devil's Golf Course is a large salt pan on the floor of Death Valley. It was named after a line in the 1934 National Park Service guide book to Death Valley National Monument, which stated that "Only the devil could play golf" on its surface, due to a rough texture from the large halite salt crystal formations. [5]
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 and Mojave deserts, protecting the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and its diverse environment of salt-flats , sand dunes ...
Death Valley is known as America’s hottest, driest and lowest national park. ... “Down on the valley floor, it’s this huge, white, beautiful salt flat that gets fractured into polygons ...
Visitors walk out onto the salt flats at Badwater Basin, taking advantage of cooler morning temperatures on a day when the mercury would rise as high as 125 degrees in Death Valley National Park.
Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, ... By May 2005, the valley floor had resumed its more familiar role as Badwater Basin, salt-coated salt flats ...
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. Death Valley will likely reopen Oct. 15.