Death Valley may be America's hottest national park, ... “Down on the valley floor, it’s this huge, white, beautiful salt flat that gets fractured into polygons,” Wines said.

Death Valley is about to get deadlier. The California national park could break its own record for the world’s hottest place early next week as a dangerous heat wave sweeps through the Golden State.

Death Valley is still wet. And only a fortunate few seem to be getting the best of it. Two months after a storm that dropped a year’s rainfall in a single day, flooding roads, destroying trails ...

Death Valley averages about 2 inches of rain per year, but this year, the valley floor received 4.9 inches of rain in the past six months alone, according to park officials.

When one of the world's hottest places reaches this threshold, it grabs the attention of meteorologists and visitors, alike.

We soon arrived at Badwater Basin, a playa wedged between two mountain ranges that shoot up straight from the valley floor. These mountains aren’t thickly forested like the Appalachians.

The valley floor is below sea level. As the sun heats up the air, the hot air rises, but is trapped by the mountains around the valley. During the summer, temperatures at midnight tend to range ...

Death Valley may not have gotten its name from a scorching summer’s day. But 174 years after it was named, the barren, salty valley is still as inhospitable as it was in 1849. Related Topics ...

The Ranch at Death Valley, opened in 1933, is a favorite with vacationing families as its 276 keys (80 cottages, 164 standard rooms, and 32 deluxe rooms) offer a wide range of accommodations and a ...

A small panel managed to extract a glassful of clean water from the bone-dry air of Death Valley in California, which ...