THE BADWATER BASIN IN DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK IS USUALLY A DRY, SALT FLAT BOTTOM. TAKE A LOOK HERE. BUT IT HAS ACTUALLY RECEIVED ENOUGH WATER TO FORM AN UNEXPECTED LAKE. IT BEGAN IN AUGUST ...

Visitors gather at the sprawling temporary lake at Badwater Basin salt flats, which was caused by flooding in August from Tropical Storm Hilary, at the recently reopened Death Valley National Park ...

A visitor walks in the sprawling temporary lake at Badwater Basin salt flats in Death Valley National Park on October 21, 2023. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) The parched desert soil couldn’t absorb ...

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 ...

And at the same time, some of the best bike rides are in Death Valley,” said Fisher. Check out the salt flats of Badwater Basin. Visiting the lowest point in North America (at 282 feet below ...

A temporary lake has bubbled up in the park's Badwater Basin, which lies 282 feet below sea level. What is typically a dry salt flat at the bottom of Death Valley has for months been teeming with ...

It stretched about 200 square miles, and is mostly made of sodium chloride (table salt), calcite, gypsum and borax. Death Valley, where the basin is found, is one of the hottest places on Earth ...

Badwater Basin, where the lake formed, lies at the bottom of Death Valley. It's normally a dry salt flat. Heavy rain changed that this year. There's no drain to the sea from Death Valley ...

Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park is the lowest place ... of hard-packed earth covered in what is essentially table salt, left behind by water that coursed down from adjacent mountains ...

was able to pop a few kayaks into a temporary lake that formed over the famed Saltwater Basin. “You might think with no drain to the sea, that Death Valley would always have a lake,” park ...

"[Death Valley] is the hottest ... the landscape accumulated sediment and concentrated salt deposits, which resulted in the basin's unique and often-photographed pattern of geometric salt polygons.

The salt flat-turned-lake is an exceptional but fleeting sight to behold. “It is definitely a rare and special event,” Death Valley park ... Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America ...