Death Valley National Park

Best viewpoints in Death Valley National Park

Death Valley National Park features some of the most dramatic geological transitions in North America. This selection includes high-altitude overlooks like Dante’s View and Aguereberry Point, which provide vistas of the salt flats 5,000 feet below. The list also highlights unique surface formations, from the volcanic-tinted hills of Artist's Palette and the golden badlands of Zabriskie Point to the jagged salt spires of the Devil’s Golf Course and the arrowweed mounds of the Devil's Corn Field.

Death Valley's Best Viewpoints — Map

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Zabriskie Point

Zabriskie Point is a part of the Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California, United States,…

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Artist's Palette

This place is called the palette for a reason. The cornucopia of colours of Black Mountains rocks is just ravishing.

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Death Valley National Park

The largest national park in the contiguous United States, protecting a desert environment that includes the lowest point in North America at Badwater Basin. Its landscape encompasses salt flats, sand dunes, and rugged mountain ranges.

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Devil's Corn Field

A landscape defined by arrowweed plants. Wind erosion has removed the surrounding soil, leaving the plants on mounds of sand that resemble bundles of harvested corn.

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Devils Golf Course

An expansive salt pan where wind and rain have shaped rock salt into a field of jagged, crystalline spires. The formations are composed of halite and are continuously reshaped by rare desert rainfall.

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Father Crowley Vistapoint

A viewpoint overlooking the volcanic layers of Rainbow Canyon. It is a well-known location for observing military aircraft conducting low-altitude flight training through the narrow gorge, nicknamed Star Wars Canyon.

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Aguereberry Point

Places of interest in the Death Valley area are mostly located within Death Valley National Park in eastern California.

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Dante's View

Dante's View is a viewpoint terrace at 1,669 m height, on the north side of Coffin Peak, along the crest of the Black Mountains,…

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