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.

The only paved route through the southern end of Death Valley National Park remains closed and could stay that way for months. Flash flooding from a July 28 storm caused major damage to Badwater Ro ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A conservation nonprofit that previously raised $80 million is using more funds to make improvements at some of the most popular national parks in Nevada a reality. The San ...

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.

Death Valley: A depressed basin in Inyo County, California, and the hottest and lowest location in the United States. Approximately 50 miles long and 20 miles wide, it lies 276 feet below sea level.

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 ...

The Fund For People In Parks, a nonprofit sponsorship group founded in 2014, has raised more than $800,000 for 30 projects at 11 different parks, including Death Valley and Great Basin national parks.