Death Valley National Park is one of America's largest and best-known National Parks. It contains the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere, Badwater Basin, at 282 feet below sea level. The park also contains multiple Ghost towns and mine ruins. It also encompasses mountain ranges. Near Badwater is Furnace Creek, where a hotel was built in 1927, helping begin the park's long history of tourism. The diversity of the park's biological regions can also be seen in it's diverse array of wildlife, from Bighorn Sheep, Coyote, Foxes and Mule Deer, to the Death Valley Pupfish, a survivor from much wetter times in the park.See more of my pictures from the blazing hot day I visited in May of 2004.
