Plan your trip to Death Valley National Park, CA

It’s one of the hottest, driest and lowest destinations in the world: California’s Death Valley National Park. At 3.4 million acres of mountains and desert, Death Valley is also the largest national park in the contiguous United States.

Take precautions when you visit; the famous desert temperatures often exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit and visitors have suffered heat stroke. Still, Death Valley’s striking snow-capped mountains and red-rock desert offer breathtaking landscapes and the area offers an array of activities. Visit the Furnace Creek Area, which features hikeable Golden Canyon, the stunning Dante’s View overlook and the lowest point in North America: the Badwater salt flats. Other Death Valley sites include the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Darwin Falls (a year-round spring-fed waterfall) and the mysterious moving rocks on the Racetrack Playa.