Living Color in Death Valley National Park [Explore]

Death Valley has such a bleak sound to it. Certainly, the fact that temperatures there routinely exceed 120°F, and there is little to no water to be found, make the environment fairly inhospitable to human settlement and development. But the ecology of this vast desert region, which ranges from mountains to deep desert valleys, is absolutely fascinating.

 

Combine that with the displays of geologic strata evident in the elevation changes and you have a spectacularly colorful place, teeming with vibrance untold by the name. This area along the Titus Canyon Road, which wends its way from the Nevada entry to the Park through Leadfield, a ghost mining town, and ends just north of Stovepipe Wells, is a richly colored trip through history, and well worth a day's drive.

 

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#121 ⭐ July 06, 2021

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