Places: CA-Death Valley

Death Valley-   (-279)' (Badwater) (36.2466180, -116.8169955)
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Death Valley Buttes-3,035' (Stovepipe Wells NE) (36.7114739,   -117.0044294)
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Death Valley Canyon-1,614' (Devils Speedway) (36.2552591,  -116.9606211)
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Description : Trips : References : Pictures 


Description:
The range next east of us across the low valley was barren to look upon as a naked, single rock.
There were peaks of various heights and colors, yellow, blue firery red and nearly black. It looked
as if it might sometime have been the center of a mammoth furnace. I believe this range is known
as the Coffin's Mountains. It would be difficult to find earth enough in the whole of it to cover a
coffin.
Just as we were ready to leave and return to camp we took off our hats, and then overlooking the
scene of so much trial, suffering and death spoke the thought uppermost saying:—“ Good bye
Death Valley!” then faced away and made our steps toward camp. Even after this in speaking of this
long and narrow valley over which we had crossed into its nearly central part, and on the edge of
which the lone camp was made, for so many days, it was called Death  From WIlliam Manly's book Death Valley in '49.

From GNIS:

• Death Valley.
• Lowest elevation in California and the lowest point in the western hemisphere, located at 282 feet below sea level at Badwater Basin. Bound on the northwest by Last Chance Canyon and Last Chance Range, on the west by Telescope Peak in the Panamint Range, on the east by Dantes View in the Black Mountains of the Amargosa Range, and on the southeast by the Avawatz Mountains at Silurian Valley.
• According to a 1960 letter requesting the origins of the name Death Valley, they referenced the 1906 decision which referenced a National Geographic article which had the words Death Valley in the title. But the letter concluded that the original use of the name may never be known.
• Also Called:
• Amargosa Desert
• Armuyosa Desert-Gudde, Erwin G. California Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1949.
• Kunayiwaavi-Laird, Carobeth. The Chemehuevis. Banning, California: Malki Museum Press, 1976.
• LaVallee De Mort-Death Valley National Park Visitor Guide: Spring/Summer 1995. Death Valley California: Death Valley National Park, 1995.
• Lost Valley-Palmer, T.S. Place Names of the Death Valley Region in California and Nevada. Morongo Valley, California: Sagebrush Press, 1980.
• Mesquite Valley-Palmer, T.S. Place Names of the Death Valley Region in California and Nevada. Morongo Valley, California: Sagebrush Press, 1980.
• Mound Spring Valley-Palmer, T.S. Place Names of the Death Valley Region in California and Nevada. Morongo Valley, California: Sagebrush Press, 1980.
• North Arm-Palmer, T.S. Place Names of the Death Valley Region in California and Nevada. Morongo Valley, California: Sagebrush Press, 1980.
• Northwestern Arm--Palmer, T.S. Place Names of the Death Valley Region in California and Nevada. Morongo Valley, California: Sagebrush Press, 1980.
•  Todestal-Death Valley National Park Visitor Guide: Spring/Summer 1995. Death Valley California: Death Valley National Park, 1995.
• Tonesha-Fradkin, Philip L. The Seven States of California. New York, NewYork: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.
• Tumpisa-Death Valley National Park Visitor Guide: Spring/Summer 1995. Death Valley California: Death Valley National Park, 1995.
• Death Valley Buttes. Also called Breyfogle Buttes-Palmer, T.S. Place Names of the Death Valley Region in California and Nevada. Morongo Valley, California: Sagebrush Press, 1980.
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Trips:

• November 20-24, 2019 - Five days in Death Valley
• November 14-19, 2021 - Travel to Death Valley from Lone Pine. Staying at Texas Springs Campground
  
•  February 17, 18, 19, and 20, 2025 - Stayed in Death Valley for three nights and four days with car troubles. Sherri, Gary and Don camped at Texas Springs.

References:

• National Park
• Wikipedia: Death Valley and the National Park
• DeathValley.com
• National Parks Conservancy
• Dept of  Interior-12 things you did not know
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Pictures:

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