An ancient lake has reemerged at Death Valley National Park after the region experienced its wettest fall on record. Several ...

Park ranger Matthew Lamar leads a tour along Badwater Road, where crews are working to clear mud and debris left from the recent tropical storm. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Clouds of thick ...

Death Valley’s wildlife beats the odds in a place defined by extremes. The hottest, driest, and lowest landscape in the ...

A $200 million transformation elevates The Oasis at Death Valley into an extraordinary retreat. Just beyond the Nevada-California border at Death Valley Junction, Highway 190 stretches west in a ...

A man hikes onto the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, where temperatures have regularly risen as high as 125 degrees during a recent heat wave. As temperatures swelled to 128 ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK — Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells are among the roadside outposts inside Death Valley National Park, while Dante’s View draws tourists at sunset and Hell’s Gate greets ...

Visitors normally flock to Death Valley National Park to feel the searing heat and take in the barren landscape. This fall, they’ve been drawn by a different natural feature: water. Visitors normally ...

Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million visitors go there in June, July and August, when temperatures soar. Why? Roughly a quarter of the national park’s more than 1 million ...

There are few national parks as extreme as Death Valley National Park, which straddles the border of California and Nevada. The saltwater flats of Badwater Basin sit well below sea level and face ...

In December 1849, a group of settlers seeking their fortunes stumbled upon this inhospitable valley. The few who made it out alive assigned the haunting moniker. Hikers are seen in the distance at the ...

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — As you drive into Death Valley National Park, out through the desert west of Las Vegas, just across the border into California, you pass a sign for Devil’s Golf Course. Don’t be ...