If visiting Death Valley in the summer, follow these tips to stay safe. The park is over 3 million acres with limited cell service; prepare

Death Valley National Park is a national park of the United States that straddles the California–Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka Valley and most of Saline Valley.

Death Valley is a vast national park with over three million acres of designated wilderness and hundreds of miles of paved and backcountry roads. The park contains an amazing variety of terrain, historic sites, plants and animals for outdoor adventurers to explore.

Death Valley is the largest national park in the lower 48 states and with more than 1,000 miles of roads, many of them unpaved, there is a lot of wilderness to explore. Racetrack Playa and Eureka Sand Dunes are two examples of backcountry experiences you can have in this park.

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Death Valley National Park, the hottest and driest national park in the United States, located in Death Valley, largely in southwestern California, though a small portion extends into Nevada’s Bullfrog Hills. It is also the largest national park in the 48 conterminous U.S. states.