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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.

The guide takes the lead during a horseback ride on the valley floor in Death Valley. (Marjie Lambert/Miami Herald/TNS) By Marjie Lambert. Updated March 17, 2017.

In a land of extremes, where a barren valley floor sinks below sea level, rain rarely falls and summer temperatures reach a toasty 120 degrees, a riot of color has exploded. For the first time in ...

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 National Park, one of the hottest places on Earth, is experiencing a rare occurrence fit for the record books. Despite its inhospitable climate, the below-sea-level basin in Furnace ...

(NEWSER) – For at least a century, the "slithering stones" of Death Valley — rocks, some of them boulders weighing more than 600 pounds, that move across the desert floor and leave long 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.

A rare burst of color is softening the stark landscape of Death Valley, ... giving rise to the Amargosa and the Panamint mountain ranges and dropping the valley floor 292 feet below sea level.

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 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 ...