Table of Contents
(listed from northwest to southeast)

Eureka Valley (4)

Racetrack Valley (3)

Northern Death Valley (3)

Grapevine Mountains (1)

Saline Valley (2)

Lee Flat and Darwin (4)

Panamint Valley (6)

Emigrant Pass Road (6)

Skidoo (4)

Wildrose Canyon (6)

Stovepipe Wells (3)

Salt Creek and Vicinity (6)

Greenland Ranch (7)

Furnace Creek Inn (5)

Zabriskie Point / Golden Canyon (3)

Twenty Mule Team Canyon (4)

Dantes View (3)

South of Furnace Creek (3)

Badwater (5)

South of Badwater (7)

South End of Death Valley (4)

Jubilee Pass / Salsberry Pass (5)

Shoshone and Tecopa (6)

(see also the Fullscreen versions)

Complete Listing (see also the Fullscreen versions)

listed from northwest to southeast

Eureka Valley

Out in the middle of Eureka Valley.

The Eureka Dunes, highest in North America.

Just after sunrise, at the base of the Eureka Dunes.

Open desert camping in Eureka Valley.

Racetrack Valley

The sliding stones on Racetrack Playa.

Students surveying Racetrack Playa.

Corridor Canyon, northwest of Racetrack Valley.

Northern Death Valley

Out in the "Middle of Nowhere" (in Death Valley).

The Lost Burro Mine.

Ubehebe Crater, late afternoon.

The Grapevine and Funeral Mountains

Titus Canyon, a narrow gorge in the Grapevine Mountains.

Saline Valley

One of the hot springs in Saline Valley.

Looking down into Saline Valley from the Nelson Range.

Lee Flat and Darwin

The back road to Cerro Gordo, east slope of the Inyo Range.

An extensive Joshua tree forest covers Lee Flat.

The Father Crowley overlook, above Panamint Valley.

Darwin Falls between Panamint Valley and Darwin.

Panamint Valley

The Panamint Springs Resort.

On the clay-pan playa of Panamint Dry Lake.

At the foot of Panamint Butte in Panamint Valley.

A flash-flood gully near the Panamint Dunes.

On one of the smaller sand ridges in the Panamint Dunes.

At the summit of the Panamint Dunes, with a strong wind.

Emigrant Pass Road

Near this spot in Emigrant Wash, Death Valley received its name in 1849.

Aguerberry Camp is all that remains of the boom-town of Harrisburg.

The Eureka Mine was worked by Pete Aguereberry for over forty years.

The Cashier Mill is right next to the Eureka Mine.

Aguereberry Point offers a sweeping panorama of Death Valley from the Panamint Mountains.

A small mine near Nemo Crest in the Panamint Mountains.

Skidoo

A narrow winding road high above Death Valley leads to the former mining town of Skidoo.

Looking down on the main street of the now-vanished town of Skidoo.

The water-powered stamp mill at Skidoo.

The mill at Skidoo was powered by water from Birch Spring, 23 miles away.

Wildrose Canyon

The lower spring at Wildrose on the west slope of the Panamint Mountains.

Wildrose Campground, high enough to give relief from the heat of Death Valley.

Traces of the Skidoo pipeline are still visible as it crosses the Wildrose Valley.

The charcoal kilns at Wildrose were built in 1879 and only used for three years.

Pinyon pine forest at Mahogany Flat at the head of Wildrose Canyon.

Just south of Mahogany Flat on the trail to Telescope Peak.

Stovepipe Wells

Tourist facilities at Stovepipe Wells.

Sunrise on the sand dunes near Stovepipe Wells.

Moonlight on the sand dunes.

Salt Creek and Vicinity

The Devils Cornfield, an area of arrow weed susbsisting on brackish water below the surface.

Sea level on the road north of Salt Creek.

Salt Creek wells up at the head of Pupfish Marsh.

Midway along Salt Creek the water flows swiftly down a miniature rapids.

Less than mile from its source Salt Creek sinks back into the sand and dries up.

Spring flowers near Salt Spring.

Greenland Ranch - Furnace Creek

The Death Valley Museum and visitor center at Furnace Creek.

Furnace Creek Ranch, accommodations and services.

The old date grove at the Furnace Creek Ranch.

The lowest golf course in the world, at Furnace Creek in Death Valley.

Old logging and mining equipment at the Borax Museum.

On a hilltop above Texas Spring campground.

Sunset Campground at Furnace Creek Ranch.

The Furnace Creek Inn

Front entrance to the luxurious Furnace Creek Inn.

A wing of guest rooms above the palm garden at Furnace Creek Inn.

The idyllic palm garden at the Furnace Creek Inn.

The Furnace Creek Inn swimming pool.

On the gravel fan below the Furnace Creek Inn.

Zabriskie Point and Golden Canyon

Eroded lakebed sediments have created the stark landscape around Zabriskie Point.

Golden Canyon is cut into the mud hills below Manly Beacon.

At one time there was a road up narrow Golden Canyon.

Twenty Mule Team Canyon and Greenwater Valley

Twenty Mule Team Canyon traverses an area of low mud hills.

Barren badlands along Twenty Mule team Drive in Furnace Creek Wash.

The company town of Ryan clings to a distant mountainside.

Old tramlines and mine workings in Greenwater Valley near Ryan.

Dantes View in the Black Mountains

The staggering vista at Dantes View, over 5000 feet above Death Valley.

Dantes Peak, summit of the Black Mountains.

On the ridgetop south of Dantes View.

South of Furnace Creek

Dramatic afternoon light on the Badwater Road near Artist Drive.

The Devil's Golf Course.

Spring wildflowers near Artists Drive on the Badwater Road.

Badwater

The salt flats near Badwater.

The salty pool at Badwater is just about the lowest point in North America.

The newly built viewpoint at Badwater.

A well-beaten trail across the salt flats at Badwater allows one to see Dantes View, 5000 feet above.

Lake Manly - winter rains flooded Death Valley in 2005.

South of Badwater

Alluvial fans south of Badwater.

Wineglass valleys and steep alluvial fans in the Black Mountains south of Badwater.

Coyote Spring, one of a number of small seeps along the edge of the salt pan.

At the base of the Black Mountains on the Badwater Road.

Salt flats on the floor of Death Valley, near Mormon Point.

On the north side of Mormon Point.

The southern Black Mountains.

The South End of Death Valley

Desert gold (flowers) near Ashford Mill in Death Valley.

The dry Amargosa River and Shoreline Butte at the south end of Death Valley.

Near the Amargosa River crossing on the Westside Road.

Saratoga Spring at sunset.

Jubilee Pass and Salsberry Pass

Spring wildflowers west of Jubilee Pass.

Desert gold (flowers) west of Jubilee Pass.

Wildflowers west of Salsberry Pass.

Salsberry Pass, between Death Valley and the Amargosa River Valley at Shoshone.

Spring wildflowers east of Salsberry Pass.

Shoshone and Tecopa

The town of Shoshone, east of Death Valley.

The Amargosa River near Tecopa.

Warm springs at the edge of the marsh, Tecopa.

Tecopa Hot Springs County Park.

Badlands and alluvial flats near Tecopa.

Near Ibex Pass, south of Tecopa.

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