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Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley Guide Book

by Bill Cunningham & Polly Burke (Falcon Publishing)
Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley

120pp/maps
ISBN: 1560449772

From the wide-open salt flats of the Badwater Basin, where you'll find the lowest point in the continental US, to narrow, twisting canyons with walls that have been beautifully sculpted by wind and water, Death Valley National Park is a surprising and wonderful place to explore. This handy little guidebook will lead you to 23 short, easy-to-follow routes within the park.

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... Preview: As bleak as it looks, the popular hike onto the salt flats at Badwater is arguably the ultimate Death Valley experience. If you have been to Dantes View or Telescope Peak, you probably saw the human a ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Shoshone, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles
... Preview: If possible, take this hike in the early morning with the sun at your back. This makes for better photography and for enhanced enjoyment of the superlative vistas and astounding 5,755-foot drop to the ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Shoshone, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 1 miles
... Preview: This hike is a highly scenic but less crowded alternative to the nearby Golden Canyon hike. The optional extended hike involves moderate canyoneering to a high pass overlooking the Artists Drive Forma ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Shoshone, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.2 miles
... Preview: For those of us who never completely outgrew our love of sandboxes, this place is paradise. The Eureka Dunes, located within the expanded northern portion of the park, are a fascinating island of sand ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Big Pine, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 3 miles
... Preview: Fall Canyon is a narrow, twisting chasm in the colorful Grapevine Mountains. Do not attempt this hike if wet weather appears likely. The canyon is highly susceptible to flash flooding. You could easil ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Beatty, NV - Hiking - Trail Length: 6 miles
... Preview: Both the shorter and longer versions of this hike provide a fascinating journey through geologic time, passing rocks of different ages as the elevation increases. Highlights of this hike include the e ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Shoshone, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 1 miles
... Preview: Like the other Tucki Mountain canyons, Grotto Canyon is very broad—up to 200 yards wide in many areas. Deeply eroded canyon walls stand like medieval castle ramparts, with short serpentine pathways in ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Olancha, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 4 miles
... Preview: This desolate site was the scene of frenzied activity from 1883 to 1888—not in quest of gold, like so much mining activity, but of borax. Used in ceramics and glass as well as soap and detergent, bora ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Shoshone, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 1 miles
... Preview: Located less than 10 miles from busy Furnace Creek, this excursion to a lower canyon entrance provides desert panoramas, solitude, majestic rock formations, and varied terrain. A short side trip to th ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Shoshone, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.8 miles
... Preview: The Keane Spring townsite attests to the value of desert water. The town’s brief existence (1906–1909) was based entirely on the availability of water here. When the Funeral Mountains were humming wit ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Beatty, NV - Hiking - Trail Length: 1 miles
... Preview: The amazing thing about the Keane Wonder Spring hike is its plethora of mine sites. Keane Wonder Mine was heralded to be the richest gold strike in Death Valley, attracting a multitude of hopeful mine ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Beatty, NV - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles
... Preview: Darwin Stream is the only permanent water in this area of the park. Flowing from the China Garden Spring, Darwin supplies the Panamint Springs Resort with water via a pipeline visible on both the driv ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Olancha, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.6 miles
... Preview: The adjacent Cottonwood and Marble Canyons are as different from each other as night and day. Cottonwood is wide and open, whereas Marble is a wonderland of intimate narrows and dark alcoves. As such, ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Olancha, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 5.2 miles
... Preview: This is favored habitat for quail and other birds. The base of the dryfall is definitely worth visiting. In addition to the main wide falls, another smaller but equally high fall guards the canyon bow ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Beatty, NV - Hiking - Trail Length: 3 miles
... Preview: The fault in Tucki Mountain that produced Mosaic Canyon consists of mosaic breccia and smooth Noonday formation dolomite, formed in a seabed 750 to 900 million years ago. After being pressurized and b ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Olancha, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.8 miles
... Preview: Death Valley’s fascinating geologic history is featured on the informational kiosk at the trailhead of the Natural Bridge hike. Bedding and slip faulting are explained on the board, so the canyon’s co ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Shoshone, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles
... Preview: This down-canyon traverse begins in open desert country dotted with creosote brush and Mormon tea. Nemo Canyon drops moderately to the southwest. To avoid walking toward the sun and into a stiff after ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Olancha, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.6 miles
... Preview: Salt Creek Interpretive Trail is a fully accessible, lollipop-shaped boardwalk hike, with trailside signs providing interpretive information. There is a beach-like quality to the short hike, not only ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Shoshone, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.5 miles
... Preview: The Grandstand consists of a large, 70-foot-high mound of gray rocks rising in stark contrast to the surrounding white flatness of the Racetrack Playa, a dry lakebed. For added perspective, walk aroun ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Big Pine, CA - Hiking - Trail Length: 1 miles
... Preview: Titus Canyon is the longest and one of the grandest canyons in Death Valley. Titus Canyon is a slot canyon, immediately narrow at its mouth. From the brightness of the desert floor you plunge into the ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Death Valley"
Beatty, NV - Hiking - Trail Length: 4.2 miles

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