DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK

The moon rises over the Panamint Mountains on the west side of Death Valley (center). In the foreground is Manly Beacon. This photo taken from Zabriskie Point.

One of my favorite places to pass through on my business trips out west is Death Valley National Park, which was upgraded from a national monument on October 31, 1994, thanks to those great heroes, Senator Dianne Feinstein and President Clinton. Death Valley is the largest national park south of Alaska. More photos of Death Valley are coming to this page soon.

Here's a travelogue I wrote about Death Valley in April 1996.

Here are some links for your viewing pleasure. All are working as of 25 February 2002:

  • Here is the official web site of the park
  • The National Park Service issues this report daily advising of the weather and road conditions
  • A good place to start is GORP's Guide to Death Valley
  • This Sierra WebPage is a great guide to Death Valley and has many useful photos
  • This Death Valley page is provided by DesertUSA.
  • The American Southwest guide to Death Valley contains many interesting photos and links.
  • Tourist information about the Valley from Ridgecrest
  • Learn about the Valley's moving rocks
  • Here's the story of a team headed by Dinesh Desai which walked the length of the park in July 1998, in temperatures reaching 129 degrees Faehrenheit! Many good photos!
  • This page is all about the geology of Death Valley.
  • John W. Uhler's page contains some cool photos of bighorn sheep.
  • Here's the place to learn about the fossils of Death Valley.
  • It might be out of your price range, but here's the Furnace Creek Inn & Ranch Resort
  • NASA's Satellite photos, some of which are 3D
  • The American West guide to Death Valley contains some interesting pictures
  • Here are some professional photos of some Death Valley landmarks. (Of special interest are the Eureka sand dunes in the northeast part of the park, which are much larger than the Death Valley sand dunes near Stovepipe Wells.)
  • California Desert Playground - some nice pictures

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