Death Valley National Park USA - hottest, driest, lowest National Park in the USA!
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- Death Valley National Park is the USA's hottest, driest, lowest and largest (in the contiguous U.S.) national park. In this below-sea-level basin, steady drought and record summer heat make Death Valley a land of extremes. Yet, each extreme has a striking contrast. Towering peaks are frosted with winter snow. Rare rainstorms bring vast fields of wildflowers. Lush oases harbor tiny fish and refuge for wildlife and humans. Despite its morbid name, a great diversity of life thrives in Death Valley.
The park is home to many species of plants and animals that have adapted to the harsh desert environment including creosote bush, Joshua tree, bighorn sheep, coyote, and the endangered Death Valley pupfish, a survivor from much wetter times. UNESCO included Death Valley as the principal feature of its Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve in 1984.
A series of Native American groups inhabited the area from as early as 7000 BC, most recently the Timbisha around 1000 AD who migrated between winter camps in the valleys and summer grounds in the mountains. A group of European Americans, trapped in the valley in 1849 while looking for a shortcut to the gold fields of California, gave the valley its name, even though only one of their group died there.
Several short-lived boom towns sprang up during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to mine gold and silver. The only long-term profitable ore to be mined was borax, which was transported out of the valley with twenty-mule teams. The valley later became the subject of books, radio programs, television series, and movies. Tourism expanded in the 1920s when resorts were built around Stovepipe Wells and Furnace Creek. Death Valley National Monument was declared in 1933 and the park was substantially expanded and became a national park in 1994.
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This is exactly the true face of the USA. This is how I know it from TV from Hollywood movies. Such an environment, the road with a yellow line, the buildings, the flag is yours.
Those are beautiful shots. The music fits the video and also reminds me of video footage from the 80s. American trucks on the roads, Palm trees, sand, mountains and vast countryside. This is the real America as I imagine it. The Old American West.
It is definitely one region in its most natural state. But of course the US is so vast and varied you will find completely different environments from this less than 100 miles from here. It's one big reason why so many Americans never travel outside the country. You can find just about any type of geography you want somewhere inside our borders. Thanks for the comment!
This is one place that I have never made it to in person. I've been close to it, just never to the park itself. One would imagine that the Park Ranger's are very active in this area, especially in the dry heat and people biting off a little more than they can chew. The dry heat can be very deceptive, can't it? To be honest I had literally no idea that there were snow covered mountain tops there. With all of the prospectors for gold and the centuries of Native American's who inhabited the land, can you just imagine what is out there waiting to be found? Indeed, imagine how much gold is still out there ;)
It's a pretty fascinating place in its own way. We found it to be a one time visit is enough kind of attraction, not really our cup of tea. A stark contrast to what we're accustomed to up here in the lush green environs of Washington. Yeah, there are warning signs everywhere you go saying be prepared, take extra water, etc. if planning to go wandering off into the outback, not to mention rattlesnakes! A very unforgiving land. Thanks for the great comment Richard.
@@sunnyskytravel4571 Back in '92 I spent an entire day at the Grand Canyon, but I agree with you. While beautiful, it wasn't a very exciting trip, lol. That same week I went to San Diego and then changed trains in LA as I was heading to Seattle. I left LA in the early morning and that afternoon the LA riots started!! I consider myself quite fortunate.
Death Valley is very hot place.
Yes it certainly is, but when we went it was not bad. Don't go in summer!
Amazing 🙂
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Death valley looks not quite so dead as the name implies. There is even a bit of greenery in places. Nice tour, thanks!
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Ah yes indeed, cannae beat a bit Death Valley ❤😊
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