From the moment our car climbed over the rust-colored mountains and descended into boulder-studded valleys, a sense of peaceful solitude was the tone for our weekend in Death Valley National Park.

Epic Guide to Death Valley National Park in California and Nevada. Everything you need to plan an amazing National Park ...

The Death Valley Visitor Center is open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and has bathrooms, pass sales, a bookstore, exhibits on the park and a park film. Detailed handouts on area trails and ...

From mysterious gliding rocks in Death Valley to fossils of some of the most ancient life forms in Glacier, here are 11 lesser-known geologic wonders—including a few personal favorites from Bruce ...

At 3.4 million acres, Death Valley is the largest national park in the contiguous 48 states, offering a striking variety of physical features: colorful rocks, exquisite sand dunes, jaw-dropping ...

Death Valley is still wet. And only a fortunate few seem to be getting the best of it. Two months after a storm that dropped a year’s rainfall in a single day, flooding roads, destroying trails ...

Death Valley National Park is the only place on Earth where geology has made me laugh out loud. I am thinking specifically of an area in the northwest section of Death Valley called the Racetrack ...

Death Valley National Park contains many mysteries, including one of nature's strangest phenomena: In the remote, almost totally dry lakebed called Racetrack Playa, some of the rocks move ...

(NEWSER) – For at least a century, the "slithering stones" of Death Valley — rocks, some of them boulders weighing more than 600 pounds, that move across the desert floor and leave long trails ...

REFERENCE: ‘Sliding Rocks on Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park: First Observation of Rocks in Motion’ by Richard D. Norris, James M. Norris, Ralph D. Lorenz, Jib Ray, Brian Jackson ...