Our Trip through Death Valley National Park and Rhyolite Ghost Town

During our U.S. Road trip we stopped at Death Valley National Park. Kim first saw the campsite and she was not sure about staying there. It was, by far, the ugliest campground she had seen up to this point. It looked boring and dusty and she was just getting ready to start so she was unhappy anyway. In the end, Death Valley became Kim’s favorite National Park and she would return to camp there anytime in the fall. They actually got rained on which is unusual for visitors to the park. There are several main roads leaving Death Valley National Park and we chose the longest and the most interesting. We stopped by Rhyolite ghost town on their way out and were enamoured by how extremely cool it was. It contains a ghost town last supper, a house made out of bottles and a naked Lego chick.

Zabriskie Point

Artists Palette

Death Valley seems stuck in time. There are still minerals protruding from the mountains. There are still areas that haven’t been diseased by factory’s or mining pits. The remnants of the “famed” borax days are there but nature has done a good job of covering them up, leaving the memories posted only on the visitor center walls.

Abandoned Train Car in Rhyolite Ghost Town

Badwater Basin- Salt Flats

The salt flats are immense in Death Valley and they sit at the lowest point below sea level in the western hemisphere, -200 feet. You can walk for miles and still be walking through honeycomb patterns of salt.

Sand Dunes

Sand dunes are created between two mountain ranges. In the evening there are thousands of footprints all over the dunes and overnight the wind sweeps them away like a giant Etch a Sketch. All we are is dust in the wind – Kansas

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