Laura Cunningham co-founded the desert conservation group Basin and Range Watch. She has lived near Death Valley for decades. And when the park reopened to visitors a few weeks back, she went to ...

Laura Cunningham co-founded the desert conservation group Basin and Range Watch. She's lived near Death Valley for decades, so when the park partially reopened to visitors, she went to see it for ...

Badwater Basin in Death Valley sits 232 feet below sea level and typically only sees about two inches of rain in a season. Over the past six months, the area has had almost 2 ½ times that from a ...

Laura Cunningham co-founded the desert conservation group Basin and Range Watch. She's lived near Death Valley for decades, so when the park partially reopened to visitors, she went to see it for ...

Visitors normally flock to Death Valley National Park to feel the searing heat and take in the barren landscape. This fall, they’ve been drawn by a different natural feature: water.

Death Valley, where the basin is found, is one of the hottest places on Earth, with a temperature of 134 degrees F being recorded on July 10, 1913, at Furnace Creek Ranch.

This video compares the distinct landscapes, climate, and visitor highlights of Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks. From the extremes of Badwater Basin to the iconic Joshua trees and boulder ...

A view of Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park from July 2023 to February 2024. As of mid-February, the lake — dubbed Lake Manly — was 6 miles long, 3 miles wide and up to 2 feet deep ...

Death Valley is not only the hottest place on Earth and the driest place in North America — it's also the largest national park in the contiguous U.S., so help is often far away.

And all that rain made its way to Death Valley, which sits along the California and Nevada border, filling Badwater Basin, which sits 282 feet below sea level — the lowest point in North America.

A huge, salty lake is currently sitting in Badwater Basin in the middle of California's Death Valley National Park. The lake is currently 2 miles wide and 4miles long, though it's only a few ...