Title: California's Death Valley and Mojave Deserts | Foster Travel Publishing
Headings: California’s Death Valley and Mojave Deserts
California’s Death Valley and Mojave Deserts
By Lee Foster
Joy of the Spring
Getting to the Death Valley and Mojave Deserts
Death Valley and Mojave Desert History
Death Valley in America’s Westward Expansion
The Railroad and the Antelope
Death Valley and Mojave Deserts’ Main Attractions
Death Valley vs The Mojave
Beauty of Zabriskie Point
Prepare Your Car for a Desert Trip
California Poppy Preserve
Saddleback Butte
Nearby Trips from the Death Valley and Mojave Deserts
Solar Electrical Generation
Calico Ghost Town
More on Death Valley

Content: Aside from a few old mines, ghost towns, and charcoal kilns, the human story here is abbreviated. Death Valley can also surprise the visitor. For example, though the area gets only two inches of annual rainfall, the rain can come in summer thunderstorms that send cascades of water hurtling down the canyons. Summer flash floods can be a matter of consequence to campers or hikers not yet initiated to the unforgiving forces of the desert. Beauty of Zabriskie Point
South from Furnace Creek are the scenic drives that show you how water and wind have carved away at the colored rock. Zabriskie Point overlook is one of the more stunning settings. Weathered rock patterns unfold before you in a trompe l’oeil effect that makes judging the distance deceptive. The lowest point in the United States lies south of Furnace Creek. A sign shows clearly when you are 282 feet below sea level. Names here sometimes have a fanciful aura, such as Devil’s Golf Course, Dante’s View, and Artist’s Drive, but they risk trivializing the landscape.