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Death Valley Wrapped Canvas Prints
Death Valley Wrapped Canvas Prints
Death Valley National Park is open year round. Modern well-maintained and air-conditioned vehicles usually have little trouble with desert travel, but summer trips do require extra planning and extra care. Temperatures begin to moderate, dropping below the 100 degree mark, in mid October and the peak visitor season runs through the cool winter and spring months into the middle of April when temperatures again climb above 100. Death Valley National Park includes the Funeral Mountains, Coffin Peak, Hells Gate, Starvation Canyon and Dead Man Pass. This is clearly a place with a bad history, reflecting the troubles and misfortunes endured by the pioneers who first traversed, inhabited and mined the region during the end of the last century. But despite the foreboding reputation, visitors today will find a place of amazing beauty with many colorful rocks and canyons, miles of pristine sand dunes, unique evaporative salt features and even a diverse range of wildlife. The park protects the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and contains a diverse desert environment of salt flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons, and mountains. It is the largest national park in the lower 48 states and has been declared an International Biosphere Reserve. Uplift of surrounding mountain ranges and subsidence of the valley floor are both occurring. The park also contains many relics from a hundred and fifty years of history, which give an insight into the harsh life of the early settlers borax and metal ore mines, ghost towns, charcoal kilns and other ruins.
