We visited Death Valley National Park this Spring Break. I was expecting very hot dry weather, flat area with lots of kinds of cactus, lizards, bugs and other animals everywhere. But it was a great surprised that Death Valley was nothing like that. It had a great variety of different kinds of terrains, spectacular views from above and on ground level. A very unique place! Following is just a few pictures of most of the places we enjoyed at Death Valley.
Us at Dante's Point
We started our visit of Death Valley National Park by driving up to Dante's Point. It is a place with hiking trail on the high mountains with the amazing view of Death Valley below. The spectacular view is best during the morning hours. It was very windy up there that day and the view of the valley was not very clear but it was still a spectacular view.
Us at Dante's Point
We started our visit of Death Valley National Park by driving up to Dante's Point. It is a place with hiking trail on the high mountains with the amazing view of Death Valley below. The spectacular view is best during the morning hours. It was very windy up there that day and the view of the valley was not very clear but it was still a spectacular view.
Us at Zabriski Point.Beautiful view of this light color rocky hills!
It was very windy the day we visited Zabriski Point.
a shot of Gordon at Ubeheb Crater.
A volcanic explosion left this crater.
Our first hike was at the Mosaic Canyon.
This hike was very narrow and among rocks full of marble.
But then it opened up nice and wide!
Our second hike was the Golden Canyon.
At this canyon, late afternoon sunlight paints deep golden tones on the canyon walls.
Zulita at a view point of Artist Drive, Death Valley.
This is a beautiful drive among view of hills of at least 6 different color rock.
Oxidation has produced a rainbow of colors in the eroded clay deposits of ancient lakebed sediments. The colors are more intense during the late afternoon. Artist Palette, about
halfway along the drive, is a particularly unusual mosaic of red, yellow, orange, green, violet and black hues. I've never seen anything like this.
A shot of Gordon and Devil's Golf Course, Death Valley.This area used to be lakes that evaporated and left layers of salt and gravel deposits on the valley floor. The moisture evaporates leaving the salt to crystallize and be sculpted into sharp ridges spires by rain and wind.
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