Kayaks aren’t a must-bring item when visiting Death Valley National Park ... of 4.9 inches over the past six months. Badwater Basin, a salt flat at 282 feet below sea level, lies at the end ...

In the arid landscape of California's Death Valley, a remarkable ... causing a gradual shrinkage of the lake. The last instance of the basin filling with water was in 2005, and it took a week ...

DEATH VALLEY ... Basin main parking lot, where the water is closest to the road. Emerging from the water with her inflatable kayak Wednesday morning, Anita Miller’s clothes were doused in dried ...

Death Valley National ... experienced the Basin at sunset, which cast a pink tranquil hue on the white salt and nearby ...

Flanked by the Chocolate Mountains and the fertile green acres of California's Imperial Valley, the Salton Sea is one of the most spectacular and bizarre bodies of water in the United States.

These new mining claims, documented here for the first time, are staked above groundwater aquifers that feed the springs at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park and provide drinking water to ...

The ranges unfold in the distance from Dantes View.Credit: iStock Death Valley is in Eastern ... as the dazzling white salt pans of Badwater Basin glare under the ferocious sun below.