![]() Traveling by Car
Using GPS NavigationGPS Navigation to sites to remote locations like Death Valley are notoriously unreliable. Numerous travelers have been directed to the wrong location or even dead-end or closed roads. Travelers should always carry up-to-date road maps to check the accuracy of GPS directions. There is no specific street address for the park or the Furnace Creek Visitor Center. Many GPS users have had success using the street address for the Death Valley Post Office which is located about 400 meters south of the visitor center. Map coordinates for the visitor center are: By Private Plane
Public TransportationAt this time, there is no public transportation available to Death Valley National Park.
Most Popular Points for a 1 day visit KML files: Each file is a 1 KB download (Father Crowley Point, Stovepipe Wells Ranger Station, Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Furnace Creek Visitor Center, Devil's Golf Course, Badwater Basin, Artist's Palette, Zabriskie Point, and Dante's View) Traveling Safely
Many of Death Valley's roads were built in the 1930s. They are narrow and serpentine and cannot be driven at high speed. The most dangerous thing in Death Valley is not the heat. It is the "single car rollover." Backcountry TravelTravel on the park's hundreds of miles of backcountry roads requires the correct type of vehicle for the road conditions, a vehicle in good repair with all necessary tools and replacement parts, and some knowledge of driving on rough dirt, gravel and 4-wheel drive roads. Backcountry travel in the summer months, April through the middle of October, can be dangerous and also requires plenty of water and supplies stored in the vehicle and knowledge of how to survive a failed vehicle in desert summer conditions!
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Last updated: October 24, 2018