good morning from Death Valley National Park specifically I am at the Furnace Creek Campground
this is going to be my home base for a couple of days it's a perfect time to visit the park
mid-november the temperatures are absolutely amazing and it's beautiful this is a great home
base for visiting some of the popular attractions in the park like badwater Basin Golden Canyon
artist drive and more so I'm definitely going to be visiting those areas and others during my visit
here I'm really excited to be here if you've been following the channel for a while you know that
I'm a fan of Death Valley I usually visit once per year and yeah this is my visit for 2022. I entered
the park this time from the East side which I've never done before Highway 190 on the west side
which would be the entrance from The olanja Lone Pine area was closed at the time that I got here
so I took kind of a long way in however I have heard that it has opened now so I may go that way
out it was cool to come in from a different end of the park it was Pitch Black when I got here
you really can't see anything around here at night except for the stars the stars are incredible
anyhow I hope that you will join me on this adventure and
stay tuned because it's going to be a great time
on a hike that I've done before it is called Darwin Falls here in the park it
is an unexpected little Oasis here in Death Valley Death Valley is the fifth largest
American National Park and the largest in the contiguous United States it is also larger
than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined and nearly as large as Puerto Rico
the park had recently experienced what they were calling a Thousand-Year rain event which caused
a lot of flood damage and road closures I could definitely see the effects of it on this Trail
as well it was rougher than I remembered and there was evidence of a lot of water moving through here
I am back here at Camp I hope you enjoyed the hike
to Darwin Falls a little Oasis here in Death Valley a lot of people probably
don't know it exists now it is time to go catch the sunset at Mesquite Dunes
for me Sunset is the best time to visit Mesquite Dunes desk brings out
the most vibrant colors of the mountains and sand
today we are going to be doing something a little bit different and we'll be visiting
a ghost town in inside the park however it's something you can
do while visiting the park and we'll be crossing state lines to get there
rhyolite is in the bullfrog Hills about 120 miles Northwest of Las Vegas near the eastern boundary
of Death Valley National Park the town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that
spring up after a prospecting Discovery in the surrounding Hills during an ensuing Gold Rush
thousands of gold Seekers developers Miners and service providers flocked to the bullfrog mining
District many settled in rhyolite which lay in a sheltered desert Basin near the Region's
biggest producer the Montgomery Shoshone mine rhyolite declined almost as rapidly as it Rose
after the richest ore was exhausted production fell by the end of 1910 the mine was operating
at a loss and it closed by 1911. by this time many out-of-work miners had moved elsewhere and
rhyolite's population dropped to below a thousand by 1920 it was close to zero after 1920 rhyolite
and its ruins became a tourist attraction and a setting for Motion Pictures most of its buildings
crumbled were salvaged for building materials or were moved to nearby Beatty or other towns
ly at the Golden Canyon trailhead where I will be doing a little hike into Golden Canyon
on this night I decided to catch the sunset at badwater Basin noted
as the lowest point in North America and the United States
Badwater
Basin is a Salt Flat which sits 282 feet below sea level
on my final night in the park I decided it'd be a treat to eat out the Oasis at
Death Valley is within walking distance from the campground and has a couple of dining options
I opted for a nice steak at the last kind word
saloon and it was awesome as well as the atmosphere
I hope you all enjoyed visiting Death Valley as much as I enjoyed being here
again it's someplace that I like to visit annually late fall winter early spring are
the times to come summer is way too hot looks like it's going to be a beautiful
sunset tonight so I'm going to go ahead and catch that I thank you all for joining me I
appreciate you all and stay tuned for the next adventure I'll see you soon bye-bye