Death Valley National Park

Pros: Amazing scenery, Almost unlimited backcountry to explore, Stark beauty
Cons: Main sites can be crowded, Gets really hot, 4x4 needed to really explore park

Home to the lowest surface point in the Western Hemisphere and the hottest temperatures in the United States, Death Valley National Park is a land of extremes – from the peaks of the snowcapped Panamint Range at over 11,000 feet to Badwater ...

Pros: Lots of natural scenery
Cons: Very hot in summertime; not many family activities

Death Valley National Park is located in east- central California, right on the Nevada border. Its name conjures up feelings of gloom and doom and, of course, intense desert heat. I visited Death Valley one summer, during the hottest time of the year, ...

Pros: an experience you might do once!!
Cons: not much to go back to again

I have been to many, many, National parks. As with all of them there is always an experience you will never forget. To me Death Valley is a one time experience. Now I love suggesting and sending people out to see our wonderful parks but you ...

Pros: If you are willing to go exploring, Death Valley is full of surprises!
Cons: Unbearable temperatures in the summer, long distances between points of interest.

We approached Death Valley from the west, winding our way along quite a few hairpin turns on Calif. Rt 190 until we reached the first good overlook, where we stopped and stared into the seemingly vast emptiness called Death Valley. It was early evening an ...

Pros: Stunning natural scenery; fascinating and unique; excellent day trip
Cons: Hot, dry, and remote...but would you really go to Death Valley expecting otherwise?

Visiting Death Valley in November--especially when you're from Minnesota--is almost like being on another planet. The landscape could be a moon in some undiscovered solar system. And (when you're from Minnesota) the warmth is as welcome as a gulp of ...

Pros: Natural beauty, flora, fauna
Cons: Heat, few activities

As part of our trip out West a few years ago, Death Valley was one of the first stops we made in the state of California. Originally, we hadn't planned to stop there, but at the insistence of my friend and myself, my mother booked reservations at a...

Pros: Beautiful scenery, great places to hike
Cons: Very Hot in summer

Not literally of course, but when I called my folks from Tonopah (Nevada) after visiting Death Valley and said that. . well at the time it was funny. This is the third installment from my Spring Break Road trip. We traveled through Death Valley for one...

Pros: Experience 1930's luxury and tall tales of the wild west on this fascinating tour.
Cons: Scotty's Castle is 50 miles from Furnace Creek in this largest of all National Parks.

Around the turn of the last century, Death Valley Scotty (aka Walter Scott), former member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and full of tall tales rolled into Chicago bragging about his gold mine in Death Valley and looking for "investors". One of those...

Pros: beautiful scenery, lots of wildlife
Cons: extremely hot, car overheats every 15 min.

I don't know how to begin to even describe this place. This is a trip that you would only want to take once in a lifetime. Not that it is not interesting.

My trip to Death Valley took place around 15 years ago, but I can still remember it...

Pros: beautifully stark, barren scenery; clear air; uncrowded
Cons: infernally hot in summer; remote; expensive concessions; long distances between different sites within park

I had been wanting to visit Death Valley for a long time, and I finally got the opportunity to do so for a couple days last March. I went on St. Patrick's Day weekend, which was an excellent time to go because there was virtually no one at the park and...

Pros: beautiful sunrises and sunsets, interesting geological formations, great desert scenery, good hiking opportunities, chances to rejuvenate your spirit
Cons: weather, crowds, huge distances between attractions, limited food/gas/other services

I've been to Death Valley twice. First, I went in Spring 1993 on a backpacking trip up a nameless canyon with some friends. This was an OK trip, but it wasn't much different from a backpacking trip in some other desert canyon.

As a result, I...

Pros: A place big enough to think without interruption.
Cons: Don't go if you're high on caffeine.

On September 11th we were to fly to London from Los Angeles for a 3-week cruise; France, Portugal, Morocco, Spain, etc. Every day we thought the planes would start flying in time for us to meet our ship, which was leaving on 9/14. But, as you know, all...

Pros: No sharks,
Cons: The water is hard. Real hard.

I jusr read the Epinion "welcome page" for Death Valley. It says the park features "hiking & water sports".

Water Sports?! In Death Valley?!?

I love these errors. The basis of much humor....

Pros: Incredible scenery, flowers if you are lucky.
Cons: Windy in spring, hot in summer, cold in winter. . .

There's gold in that valley, I'm telling you! Desert Gold sunflowers, that is. When we visited Death Valley in March, 1998, we were fortunate enough to see genuine "carpets of wildflowers" on the valley floors, as well as many less obvious flowers up...

Pros: Natural beauty, the heat, some interesting places to visit.
Cons: ?

I have been several times to Death Valley and I always enjoyed it very much. It's a very particular place of intense beauty and solitude.

If you plan a trip there, I would recommend you going during the summer months. There is nothing like...