Death Valley January 2022

A Land of Extremes

Straddling the California–Nevada border, the park includes Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern part of Eureka Valley and most of Saline Valley. Death Valley boasts colorful badlands, snow-covered peaks, beautiful sand dunes and rugged canyons.

Death Valley is a land of extremes: at 282 feet below sea level at its lowest point, Badwater Basin on Death Valley's floor is the second-lowest depression in the Western Hemisphere, while Mount Whitney, only 85 miles to the west, rises to 14,505 feet and is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States.

From the vastness of the valley floor to the wide panoramas of jagged mountains, Death Valley offers a host of photographic opportunities.