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The Artist’s Drive in Death Valley National Park is one of the more unique things you can do in the area. The drive takes you through canyons and past mountains, many of which are covered in loads of fantastic colors. It’s crazy that Death Valley has so many things that are completely unique in the park like Badwater, Devil’s Golf Course, Artist Palette and the Racetrack. Here is all the information on this the drive and Artist’s Palette, which is the main stop.
Artist’s Drive is located off Badwater Road, North of Devil’s Golf Course and South of Furnace Creek. The start of the drive is clearly marked, and it will take you about 45 minutes depending on how much you stop and how fast people are driving in front of you. Artist Palette is about 5 miles from the star
After about 5 miles of driving, you will reach the most impressive part of the drive which is Artist Palette
his is where all of the colors come through in the mountain, and it is crazy to see them all collect right in this one specific canyon.
The colors are produced by the oxidation of the metals and elements found in the ground here, and it produces everything from purple and blue to even a slight green.
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www.nps.gov/deva/learn/photosmultimedia/artists-drive.htm
The largest national park south of Alaska, Death Valley is known for extremes: It is North America's driest and hottest spot (with fewer than two inches/five centimeters of rainfall annually and a record high of 134°F), and has the lowest elevation on the continent—282 feet below sea level. Even with its extremes, the park still receives nearly a million visitors each year.
In 1849 emigrants bound for California's gold fields strayed into the 120-mile long basin, enduring a two-month ordeal of "hunger and thirst and an awful silence." One of the last to leave looked down from a mountain at the narrow valley and said, "Good-bye, Death Valley."
The moniker belies the beauty in this vast graben, the geological term for a sunken fragment of the Earth's crust. Here are rocks sculptured by erosion, richly tinted mudstone hills and canyons, luminous sand dunes, lush oases, and a 200-square-mile salt pan surrounded by mountains, one of America's greatest vertical rises. In some years spring rains trigger wildflower blooms amid more than a thousand varieties of plants.
Native Americans, most recently the Shoshone, found ways to adapt to the more recent and forbidding desert conditions that exist here now. Rock art and artifacts indicate a human presence dating back at least 9,000 years.
From 1883 to 1889, wagon teams hauled powdery white borax from mines since fallen to ruin, an enterprise that spread word of Death Valley's striking landscapes, deep solitude, and crystalline air.
As night falls, Death Valley's elusive populations of bobcats, kit foxes, and rodents venture out. Far above on steep mountain slopes, desert bighorn sheep forage among Joshua trees, scrubby junipers, and pines, while hawks soar on thermals rising into vivid blue, cloudless skies.
Did You Know?
The highest mountain in the park, 11,049-foot Telescope Peak, lies only 15 miles from Badwater Basin, the lowest point in the U.S. The vertical drop from the peak to Badwater Basin is twice the depth of the Grand Canyon.
Named by gold prospectors struggling through the area in 1849, Death Valley has been inhabited by Timbisha Shoshone Native Americans; gold prospectors, including slaves; Chinese immigrants mining for silver and borax; Basque immigrants who settled here at the turn of the 20th century; and Japanese Americans temporarily interned here during World War II.
Hottest, Driest, and Lowest National Park:
www.nationalparks.org/explore-parks/death-valley-national...
STORIES :
www.nps.gov/deva/learn/historyculture/stories.htm
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The Artist’s Drive in Death Valley National Park is one of the more unique things you can do in the area. The drive takes you through canyons and past mountains, many of which are covered in loads of fantastic colors. It’s crazy that Death Valley has so many things that are completely unique in the park like Badwater, Devil’s Golf Course, Artist Palette and the Racetrack. Here is all the information on this the drive and Artist’s Palette, which is the main stop.
Artist’s Drive is located off Badwater Road, North of Devil’s Golf Course and South of Furnace Creek. The start of the drive is clearly marked, and it will take you about 45 minutes depending on how much you stop and how fast people are driving in front of you. Artist Palette is about 5 miles from the star
After about 5 miles of driving, you will reach the most impressive part of the drive which is Artist Palette
his is where all of the colors come through in the mountain, and it is crazy to see them all collect right in this one specific canyon.
The colors are produced by the oxidation of the metals and elements found in the ground here, and it produces everything from purple and blue to even a slight green.
californiathroughmylens.com/artist-palette-artist-drive-d...
www.nps.gov/deva/learn/photosmultimedia/artists-drive.htm
The largest national park south of Alaska, Death Valley is known for extremes: It is North America's driest and hottest spot (with fewer than two inches/five centimeters of rainfall annually and a record high of 134°F), and has the lowest elevation on the continent—282 feet below sea level. Even with its extremes, the park still receives nearly a million visitors each year.
In 1849 emigrants bound for California's gold fields strayed into the 120-mile long basin, enduring a two-month ordeal of "hunger and thirst and an awful silence." One of the last to leave looked down from a mountain at the narrow valley and said, "Good-bye, Death Valley."
The moniker belies the beauty in this vast graben, the geological term for a sunken fragment of the Earth's crust. Here are rocks sculptured by erosion, richly tinted mudstone hills and canyons, luminous sand dunes, lush oases, and a 200-square-mile salt pan surrounded by mountains, one of America's greatest vertical rises. In some years spring rains trigger wildflower blooms amid more than a thousand varieties of plants.
Native Americans, most recently the Shoshone, found ways to adapt to the more recent and forbidding desert conditions that exist here now. Rock art and artifacts indicate a human presence dating back at least 9,000 years.
From 1883 to 1889, wagon teams hauled powdery white borax from mines since fallen to ruin, an enterprise that spread word of Death Valley's striking landscapes, deep solitude, and crystalline air.
As night falls, Death Valley's elusive populations of bobcats, kit foxes, and rodents venture out. Far above on steep mountain slopes, desert bighorn sheep forage among Joshua trees, scrubby junipers, and pines, while hawks soar on thermals rising into vivid blue, cloudless skies.
Did You Know?
The highest mountain in the park, 11,049-foot Telescope Peak, lies only 15 miles from Badwater Basin, the lowest point in the U.S. The vertical drop from the peak to Badwater Basin is twice the depth of the Grand Canyon.
Named by gold prospectors struggling through the area in 1849, Death Valley has been inhabited by Timbisha Shoshone Native Americans; gold prospectors, including slaves; Chinese immigrants mining for silver and borax; Basque immigrants who settled here at the turn of the 20th century; and Japanese Americans temporarily interned here during World War II.
Hottest, Driest, and Lowest National Park:
www.nationalparks.org/explore-parks/death-valley-national...
STORIES :
www.nps.gov/deva/learn/historyculture/stories.htm
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/national-parks/death-va...
The Artist’s Drive in Death Valley National Park is one of the more unique things you can do in the area. The drive takes you through canyons and past mountains, many of which are covered in loads of fantastic colors. It’s crazy that Death Valley has so many things that are completely unique in the park like Badwater, Devil’s Golf Course, Artist Palette and the Racetrack. Here is all the information on this the drive and Artist’s Palette, which is the main stop.
Artist’s Drive is located off Badwater Road, North of Devil’s Golf Course and South of Furnace Creek. The start of the drive is clearly marked, and it will take you about 45 minutes depending on how much you stop and how fast people are driving in front of you. Artist Palette is about 5 miles from the star
After about 5 miles of driving, you will reach the most impressive part of the drive which is Artist Palette
his is where all of the colors come through in the mountain, and it is crazy to see them all collect right in this one specific canyon.
The colors are produced by the oxidation of the metals and elements found in the ground here, and it produces everything from purple and blue to even a slight green.
californiathroughmylens.com/artist-palette-artist-drive-d...
www.nps.gov/deva/learn/photosmultimedia/artists-drive.htm
The largest national park south of Alaska, Death Valley is known for extremes: It is North America's driest and hottest spot (with fewer than two inches/five centimeters of rainfall annually and a record high of 134°F), and has the lowest elevation on the continent—282 feet below sea level. Even with its extremes, the park still receives nearly a million visitors each year.
In 1849 emigrants bound for California's gold fields strayed into the 120-mile long basin, enduring a two-month ordeal of "hunger and thirst and an awful silence." One of the last to leave looked down from a mountain at the narrow valley and said, "Good-bye, Death Valley."
The moniker belies the beauty in this vast graben, the geological term for a sunken fragment of the Earth's crust. Here are rocks sculptured by erosion, richly tinted mudstone hills and canyons, luminous sand dunes, lush oases, and a 200-square-mile salt pan surrounded by mountains, one of America's greatest vertical rises. In some years spring rains trigger wildflower blooms amid more than a thousand varieties of plants.
Native Americans, most recently the Shoshone, found ways to adapt to the more recent and forbidding desert conditions that exist here now. Rock art and artifacts indicate a human presence dating back at least 9,000 years.
From 1883 to 1889, wagon teams hauled powdery white borax from mines since fallen to ruin, an enterprise that spread word of Death Valley's striking landscapes, deep solitude, and crystalline air.
As night falls, Death Valley's elusive populations of bobcats, kit foxes, and rodents venture out. Far above on steep mountain slopes, desert bighorn sheep forage among Joshua trees, scrubby junipers, and pines, while hawks soar on thermals rising into vivid blue, cloudless skies.
Did You Know?
The highest mountain in the park, 11,049-foot Telescope Peak, lies only 15 miles from Badwater Basin, the lowest point in the U.S. The vertical drop from the peak to Badwater Basin is twice the depth of the Grand Canyon.
Named by gold prospectors struggling through the area in 1849, Death Valley has been inhabited by Timbisha Shoshone Native Americans; gold prospectors, including slaves; Chinese immigrants mining for silver and borax; Basque immigrants who settled here at the turn of the 20th century; and Japanese Americans temporarily interned here during World War II.
Hottest, Driest, and Lowest National Park:
www.nationalparks.org/explore-parks/death-valley-national...
STORIES :
www.nps.gov/deva/learn/historyculture/stories.htm
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/national-parks/death-va...
The Artist’s Drive in Death Valley National Park is one of the more unique things you can do in the area. The drive takes you through canyons and past mountains, many of which are covered in loads of fantastic colors. It’s crazy that Death Valley has so many things that are completely unique in the park like Badwater, Devil’s Golf Course, Artist Palette and the Racetrack. Here is all the information on this the drive and Artist’s Palette, which is the main stop.
Artist’s Drive is located off Badwater Road, North of Devil’s Golf Course and South of Furnace Creek. The start of the drive is clearly marked, and it will take you about 45 minutes depending on how much you stop and how fast people are driving in front of you. Artist Palette is about 5 miles from the star
After about 5 miles of driving, you will reach the most impressive part of the drive which is Artist Palette
his is where all of the colors come through in the mountain, and it is crazy to see them all collect right in this one specific canyon.
The colors are produced by the oxidation of the metals and elements found in the ground here, and it produces everything from purple and blue to even a slight green.
californiathroughmylens.com/artist-palette-artist-drive-d...
www.nps.gov/deva/learn/photosmultimedia/artists-drive.htm
The largest national park south of Alaska, Death Valley is known for extremes: It is North America's driest and hottest spot (with fewer than two inches/five centimeters of rainfall annually and a record high of 134°F), and has the lowest elevation on the continent—282 feet below sea level. Even with its extremes, the park still receives nearly a million visitors each year.
In 1849 emigrants bound for California's gold fields strayed into the 120-mile long basin, enduring a two-month ordeal of "hunger and thirst and an awful silence." One of the last to leave looked down from a mountain at the narrow valley and said, "Good-bye, Death Valley."
The moniker belies the beauty in this vast graben, the geological term for a sunken fragment of the Earth's crust. Here are rocks sculptured by erosion, richly tinted mudstone hills and canyons, luminous sand dunes, lush oases, and a 200-square-mile salt pan surrounded by mountains, one of America's greatest vertical rises. In some years spring rains trigger wildflower blooms amid more than a thousand varieties of plants.
Native Americans, most recently the Shoshone, found ways to adapt to the more recent and forbidding desert conditions that exist here now. Rock art and artifacts indicate a human presence dating back at least 9,000 years.
From 1883 to 1889, wagon teams hauled powdery white borax from mines since fallen to ruin, an enterprise that spread word of Death Valley's striking landscapes, deep solitude, and crystalline air.
As night falls, Death Valley's elusive populations of bobcats, kit foxes, and rodents venture out. Far above on steep mountain slopes, desert bighorn sheep forage among Joshua trees, scrubby junipers, and pines, while hawks soar on thermals rising into vivid blue, cloudless skies.
Did You Know?
The highest mountain in the park, 11,049-foot Telescope Peak, lies only 15 miles from Badwater Basin, the lowest point in the U.S. The vertical drop from the peak to Badwater Basin is twice the depth of the Grand Canyon.
Named by gold prospectors struggling through the area in 1849, Death Valley has been inhabited by Timbisha Shoshone Native Americans; gold prospectors, including slaves; Chinese immigrants mining for silver and borax; Basque immigrants who settled here at the turn of the 20th century; and Japanese Americans temporarily interned here during World War II.
Hottest, Driest, and Lowest National Park:
www.nationalparks.org/explore-parks/death-valley-national...
STORIES :
www.nps.gov/deva/learn/historyculture/stories.htm
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/national-parks/death-va...
The Artist’s Drive in Death Valley National Park is one of the more unique things you can do in the area. The drive takes you through canyons and past mountains, many of which are covered in loads of fantastic colors. It’s crazy that Death Valley has so many things that are completely unique in the park like Badwater, Devil’s Golf Course, Artist Palette and the Racetrack. Here is all the information on this the drive and Artist’s Palette, which is the main stop.
Artist’s Drive is located off Badwater Road, North of Devil’s Golf Course and South of Furnace Creek. The start of the drive is clearly marked, and it will take you about 45 minutes depending on how much you stop and how fast people are driving in front of you. Artist Palette is about 5 miles from the star
After about 5 miles of driving, you will reach the most impressive part of the drive which is Artist Palette
his is where all of the colors come through in the mountain, and it is crazy to see them all collect right in this one specific canyon.
The colors are produced by the oxidation of the metals and elements found in the ground here, and it produces everything from purple and blue to even a slight green.
californiathroughmylens.com/artist-palette-artist-drive-d...
www.nps.gov/deva/learn/photosmultimedia/artists-drive.htm
The largest national park south of Alaska, Death Valley is known for extremes: It is North America's driest and hottest spot (with fewer than two inches/five centimeters of rainfall annually and a record high of 134°F), and has the lowest elevation on the continent—282 feet below sea level. Even with its extremes, the park still receives nearly a million visitors each year.
In 1849 emigrants bound for California's gold fields strayed into the 120-mile long basin, enduring a two-month ordeal of "hunger and thirst and an awful silence." One of the last to leave looked down from a mountain at the narrow valley and said, "Good-bye, Death Valley."
The moniker belies the beauty in this vast graben, the geological term for a sunken fragment of the Earth's crust. Here are rocks sculptured by erosion, richly tinted mudstone hills and canyons, luminous sand dunes, lush oases, and a 200-square-mile salt pan surrounded by mountains, one of America's greatest vertical rises. In some years spring rains trigger wildflower blooms amid more than a thousand varieties of plants.
Native Americans, most recently the Shoshone, found ways to adapt to the more recent and forbidding desert conditions that exist here now. Rock art and artifacts indicate a human presence dating back at least 9,000 years.
From 1883 to 1889, wagon teams hauled powdery white borax from mines since fallen to ruin, an enterprise that spread word of Death Valley's striking landscapes, deep solitude, and crystalline air.
As night falls, Death Valley's elusive populations of bobcats, kit foxes, and rodents venture out. Far above on steep mountain slopes, desert bighorn sheep forage among Joshua trees, scrubby junipers, and pines, while hawks soar on thermals rising into vivid blue, cloudless skies.
Did You Know?
The highest mountain in the park, 11,049-foot Telescope Peak, lies only 15 miles from Badwater Basin, the lowest point in the U.S. The vertical drop from the peak to Badwater Basin is twice the depth of the Grand Canyon.
Named by gold prospectors struggling through the area in 1849, Death Valley has been inhabited by Timbisha Shoshone Native Americans; gold prospectors, including slaves; Chinese immigrants mining for silver and borax; Basque immigrants who settled here at the turn of the 20th century; and Japanese Americans temporarily interned here during World War II.
Hottest, Driest, and Lowest National Park:
www.nationalparks.org/explore-parks/death-valley-national...
STORIES :
www.nps.gov/deva/learn/historyculture/stories.htm
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/national-parks/death-va...
