Death Valley National Park, California

Our next stop after Zion National Park was Boulder City, Nevada, a nice little town about 25 miles from Las Vegas and 150 miles from Death Valley, California. We stayed in Canyon Trail RV Park.


We toured Death Valley National Park on April 25th, when the temperature hit 99 degrees. Death Valley holds an amazing variety of salt and rock formations, colors, and plants. We were lucky to be there after a season of good rains, which led to many lovely wildflowers in bloom.

Desert Pincushion and Desert Chicory:


Gorgeous spotted white flowers:


Beavertail Cactus:




Great variety of stones:


Toothed Dodder, an orange/yellow vine that looks like nothing but roots, covering other plants:






A type of Desert Sunflower and barely open Desert Five Spots:


Desert Five Spots:


20 Mule Team Wagon Train:




Old Dinah:




Furnace Creek Inn, an oasis in the desert:


Desert Sunflowers scattered across the desert floor . . .


and on hills:


Karen climbed a steep, gravelly hill to get pictures of wildflowers. On the way back down, her feet slipped out from under her and she fell tailbone first. We think she broke it. But we have some nice pictures! A type of Phacelia on Artists Drive:


Purple Mat on Artists Drive:


Death Valley Sage on Artists Drive:


Colorful hills on Artists Drive:


Devils Golf Course:






Badwater Basin, the lowest spot in North America:




The tiny white sign above our truck marks sea level:


Desert Stars, some with a pink tinge:




We'd love to be able to identify these beauties!