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: Death Valley was formed millions of years ago by the folding and faulting pressures of the earth’s crust. These forces uplifted the surrounding mountains. Geologic forces also dropped the area between the mountains to far below sea level. Erosive action, especially of water, gradually wore down the mountains and filled the valleys. Parts still remain dramatically below sea level. Lakes developed in the basins and periodically froze during ice ages. Layers of sediment and salt provide clues for geological detectives who reconstruct these scenarios. Getting to the Death Valley and Mojave Deserts
From the west you reach Death Valley National Park via Highway 136 from Lone Pine or Highway 178 from the Highway 395 cutoff at Red Mountain. From Las Vegas, Death Valley is north on Highway 95 and then west on 373 to Death Valley Junction. Las Vegas has the closest commercial airport destination to Death Valley, some 120 miles away.