DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK By Karl Krusel

Death Valley National park Location on US map Death Valley National Park is located in California and near the Sierra Nevada, between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts of the United States.

Map of Death Valley National Park

Topography map of death valley

When Did It Become A Park Lots of tourists came in the 1920s when there where vacation homes were built around Stovepipe Wells and Furnace Creek. Death valley greatly expanded and became a national park in Oct 31, 1994

Environment factors Death valleys air gets foggy a lot they say the have good and bad days also sometimes wind pushes pollution from metropolitan areas and industrial areas over to the park. In summer wind comes from the southwest where population centers and industrial areas are located. In winter wind comes from the northeast Since these winds, come from a let polluted area the air is better in the winter. Death valley doesn't have that many feathers but the do have some ghost towns and abandoned mines but do not go in some mines have poison gasses and air pockets they all so have flash floods and extreme heat, 24 people died last year from heat. (maybe how it got it name)

Land marks Death Valley National Park has 3.4 million acres of desert and mountains, the largest national park in the US many people think of death valley as a place where there is only heat and sweat but it dose have is castles dried up lakes and a big lake with salt icebergs in it. Badwater Scottys castle The race track

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