Can You Visit Death Valley
Death Valley, California Death Valley, California Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California , in northern Mojave Desert bordering the Great Basin Desert . It is one of the hottest places in the world along with deserts in the Middle East. Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of the lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet ( 86 m. ) below sea level. This point is 84.6 miles ( 136.2 km ) east - southeast of Mount Whitney , the highest point in the contiguous United States , with an elevation of 14,505 feet ( 4,421 m ). On the afternoon of July 10, 1913, the United States Weather Bureau recorded a high temperature of 134 °F ( 56.7 °C ) at Furnace Creek in Death Valley. This temperature stand as the highest ambient air temperature ever recorded at the surface of the Earth. Located near the border of California and Nevada, in the Great Basin , east of the Sierra Nevada mountain, Death Valley constitutes much of Death Valley National ...