A pool of salty water at Badwater Basin, followed by miles of salt flats, lies 282 feet below sea level, America's lowest elevation. Telescope Peak is the mountain in the distance.
Badwater Basin and Telescope Peak as seen from Dantes View
The Black Mountains above Artist's Drive feature many colorful rock layers
The Death Valley Sand Dunes lie at the heart of Death Valley with the Amargosa Mountains in the background.
The Amargosa Mountains form a colorful backdrop to the Death Valley Sand Dunes.
Death Valley Sand Dunes
Cream-colored formations contrasting the sand dunes and darker-colored mountains,
This unusual concentration of colored earth deposits was named Artist's Palette. It is the highlight of the Artist's Drive at Death Valley.
Artist's Drive wanders between black hills with Death Valley in the distance.
Colored cliffs and hills of Artists Drive
Desert Holly grows along the Artist's Drive.
A wash cuts through black lava flows in the hills above Death Valley.
Artist's Palette
Mountains and hills along Artists Drive
Rogers Peak and Bennett Peak in the Panamint Range west of Death Valley.
Wildrose Peak
Salt Creek flows through low hills in the middle of Death Valley.
Salt Creek and it's unusual vegetation which can tolerate heat and salt, but needs lots of water.