News Release

North Highway, Artists Drive and other roads reopen in Death Valley National Park

View out the windshield of a motor grader plowing rocks off North Highway in Death Valley National Park.

NPS/Andrew Young

News Release Date: December 22, 2025

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DEATH VALLEY, Calif. – The National Park Service reopened several flood-damaged roads in Death Valley National Park in recent days. An upcoming storm may cause new road closures.  

These roads reopened within the past two weeks: 

• North Highway 

• Ubehebe Crater Road 

• Cottonwood Canyon Road 

• Marble Canyon Road 

• Artists Drive 

• Twenty Mule Team Canyon Road 

Flash floods in August, September, and November deposited piles of rocks on roads and scoured away shoulders. National Park Service employees from several other parks assisted Death Valley National Park’s road crew.   

Several Death Valley National Park roads remain closed. Significant rainfall is predicted on December 24 and 25, which could cause new flood damage. Road status is available at nps.gov/deva.  

-www.nps.gov/deva- 

Death Valley National Park is the homeland of the Timbisha Shoshone and preserves natural resources, cultural resources, exceptional wilderness, scenery, and learning experiences within the nation’s largest conserved desert landscape and some of the most extreme climate and topographic conditions on the planet. Learn more at www.nps.gov/deva.  

Artists Drive

Left image
Entrance to Artists Drive, after flooding and before repair work.
Credit: NPS

Right image
Entrance to Artists Drive after flood debris was removed.
Credit: NPS

Before and after images of the entrance to one-lane Artists Drive.