Officials hope to clear an exit route along state Route 190 from Stovepipe Wells to Death Valley Junction soon but couldn’t say when. “We don’t have a route in or out of the park yet,” W ...

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — The temperature had just crept past 125 degrees, and Stephen Peterson was staring absently at a family cooling off in the Stovepipe Wells hotel swimming pool.

Caltrans and NPS are working to clear an exit route on CA-190 from Stovepipe Wells to Death Valley Junction so visitors and employees can safely exit the park. “The unprecedented rain came in ...