Park ranger Matthew Lamar leads a tour along Badwater Road, where crews are working to clear mud and debris left from the recent tropical storm. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Clouds of thick ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK — Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells are among the roadside outposts inside Death Valley National Park, while Dante’s View draws tourists at sunset and Hell’s Gate greets ...

Death Valley has come alive. A superbloom of wildflowers has painted the normally barren landscape of Death Valley National Park — one of the most extreme places on the planet and the hottest and ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - In a desert called the driest place in North America, who would guess a rainbow colors the sky. After a light rain, however, the brilliant rainbow appears before ...

There are few national parks as extreme as Death Valley National Park, which straddles the border of California and Nevada. The saltwater flats of Badwater Basin sit well below sea level and face ...

Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million visitors go there in June, July and August, when temperatures soar. Why? Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million ...

Despite its forbidding name and reputation as the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley draws thousands annually. Visitors are ...

Visitors normally flock to Death Valley National Park to feel the searing heat and take in the barren landscape. This fall, they’ve been drawn by a different natural feature: water. Visitors normally ...

An easy two-hour drive west of Las Vegas, Death Valley can be experienced in numerous ways – as a day trip from the city or with an overnight at one of several accommodations inside the park. My ...

When I was four years old, I learned to “breathe underwater” — not by scuba diving in a tropical ocean, but in a sink, my father’s stiff hands forcing me beneath the surface. I can still feel the ...