Death Valley Tours

So you are interested in visiting the hottest and driest national park in the United States? Death Valley is not only the hottest and driest place in the United States, it is actually recognized as being one of the hottest and driest places on earth. Death Valley is located in Eastern California in the Northern Mojave Desert. The only other place that compares to Death Valley with regards to heat deserts of Middle East. The water basin is the lowest point of elevation in North America, located 282 feet below sea level. The area was once covered by water and is very strange for people to visit when you realize that not only are they on a vast experience of barren land, but that they can find sea shells in the area from millions of years ago that water basin might be the lowest point, comes in juxtaposition to mount Whitney which is only 84 miles away which is the highest point of elevation and 14,505 feet. Death Valley also is home to furnace creek, which boasts the highest air temperature ever recorded on the surface of the earth 134°. This temperature was recorded in 1913 and while it is continually challenged by other areas, it is universally recognized as being the hottest temperature ever recorded on the face of the earth. Death Valley has in the landscape as a result of the extreme heat and climate that makes it when it is. The extremes summer heat is followed by a short winter’s where temperatures can plunge to freezing, and its small bouts of rain will sometimes create blankets of wildflowers bloom for a short time before disappearing. Death Valley is not the barren landscape that you would expect it to be, and instead is host to thousands of species of animals and plants that it simply adapted to the region and the climate. Instead of seeing tall flowers and green plants, Death Valley is home to shorter species with tougher skins, the ones that are able to go long periods of time without water and still survive.

So if this area and so harsh and a climate why would anyone want to visit? We better not, Death Valley is one of the most popular national Parks in the entire United States, posting thousands of visitors every year. Many of these visitors come from Las Vegas as tourists to the area, because they realize that they can take only a single day out of their Las Vegas vacation and still review one of the most unique spaces on the face of the earth only a few hours drive away. Because of the interest in Death Valley, tour companies from Las Vegas will provide transportation and information on the area as part of your tour packages. Tours are different from summer to winter, when the heat restricts the amount of time that can be spent outside exploring. The most will recognize spring and early winter as the best times to visit Death Valley on tour.