California's Best Trips 2 - Full PDF eBook

(Dana P.) #1

Life in Death


Valley


3 DAYS
380 MILES/610KM

GREAT FOR...


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BEST TIME TO GO
February to April for
wildflowers and cooler
temperatures.

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ESSENTIAL
PHOTO
Elevation sign at
Badwater Basin.

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BEST FOR
HISTORY
Guided tours of
Scotty’s Castle.

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Drive where California pioneers and gold miners once rolled


their wagons in Death Valley National Park, where the magnum


forces of natural and human history collide.


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Panamint
Springs

Tecopa

StovepipeWells
Village

Baker

Furnace
Creek

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Scotty’s Castle
Tour a historic oasis in
Grapevine Canyon

330 miles

Emigrant & Wildrose
Canyons
Follow early pioneers’
desperate escape
route

17 5 miles

Badwater
Plant your feet at the
USA’s lowest elevation

110 miles

Rhyolite
Explore a ghostly Wild
West mining town

270 miles

TRIP HIGHLIGHTS


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