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If your breakfast sugar-boost left you hankering for a hike, traverse one of the site’s mostly flat ... Death Valley, the hottest, driest, lowest place in North America. Spend a day cruising Badwater ...

The ranges unfold in the distance from Dantes View.Credit: iStock Death Valley is ... out on to the salt pans, but it’s worth taking the 3.2-kilometre walk out onto the flats to see the polygon ...

James Ian at the Badwater Basin in Death Valley. James Ian "There are sand dunes (Mesquite Flats), badlands (Zabriskie Point), salt flats (Badwater Basin)—it was also fun to stand at the lowest ...

The only real course in Death Valley, it’s the lowest-elevation layout in the world, in one of the hottest spots on earth. Ringed by boundless acres of salt flats, sand dunes and startling rock ...

But news reports suggested that here in the heart of Death Valley ... I visited at sunrise. It took two hours for Death Valley to darken. When the moon is full, the park’s salt flats take ...

The 200 square miles of salt flats around Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, which straddles the border along eastern California and southwestern Nevada, are too harsh an environment ...

New satellite images show that a rare lake in Death Valley National Park reached greater ... Basin is typically a cracked, bone-dry salt flat. And since there isn’t usually a lake there ...

Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team.