DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — For years scientists have theorized about how large rocks – some weighing hundreds of pounds – zigzag across Racetrack Playa in Death Valley N… ...

Death Valley National Park contains many mysteries, including one of nature's strangest phenomena: In the remote, almost totally dry lakebed called Racetrack Playa, some of the rocks move ...

When walking through Racetrack Playa, a dried up lake bed in Death Valley, it’s not unusual to see these moving rocks, with their long tracks stretched out behind them.

For decades, people have puzzled over Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, where hundreds of rocks weighing as much as 700 pounds roam across the surface of the dry lake bed. VIEW E-EDITION.

As long ago as the 1940s, the mysterious moving rocks of Death Valley National Park's Racetrack Playa have stumped scientists. How stones as heavy as 35 pounds (16kg) can bulldoze their way across ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KABC) -- On a dry, flat desert stretch in the middle of Death Valley, massive rocks moving across the desert floor have been puzzling visitors for decades.

A rainbow forms during a rare stormy sunrise at Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes. ... In Death Valley’s Racetrack, moving rocks and eerie backcountry. Maybe you’re hard to impress.

But as Death Valley National Park is 95 percent designated wilderness, all research in the park must be noninvasive. It is forbidden to erect any permanent structures or instrumentation.

Death Valley National Park is the only place on Earth where geology has made me laugh out loud. I am thinking specifically of an area in the northwest section of Death Valley called the Racetrack ...

REFERENCE: ‘Sliding Rocks on Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park: First Observation of Rocks in Motion’ by Richard D. Norris, James M. Norris, Ralph D. Lorenz, Jib Ray, Brian Jackson ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- The cracking sounds were ferocious. An ankle-deep, frozen lake in Death Valley National Park was breaking apart under sunny skies.

Death Valley will reopen access to Furnace Creek, the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Zabriskie Point and Dante’s View, and Badwater. But many roads will be closed.