Laws & Policies - Death Valley National Park (U.S. National Park Service) (2024)
Protecting America's Treasures
While visiting the White House, would you take a piece of silverware home for a keepsake? How about tearing off a piece of the Declaration of Independence? Or spray painting your name on the Statue of Liberty?
Similar actions sometimes take place in our national parks. Picking wildflowers, taking home stones or arrowheads as keepsakes, and defacing canyon walls with graffiti are all actions that degrade the parks for other visitors. In addition, it’s against the law.
When you visit any of the sites run by the National Park Service, you are viewing America’s treasures. These parks were created because they have special meaning to all Americans. The laws that created these special places for us to own and enjoy also mandate they be protected for the enjoyment of future generations of Americans as well.
Visiting any of our national parks is similar to visiting museums or art galleries. You certainly wouldn’t think of taking an artifact or painting home from such places. Removing anything from our national parks means that other visitors will not be able to enjoy it. If each of the 275 million visitors took away a flower or a stone or anything from the parks they visit, they would leave behind empty landscapes that nobody would enjoy.
Help protect America’s national park sites by leaving everything in its place and not defacing the natural resources. Other park visitors and future generations of Americans will thank you.
Picking wildflowers, taking home stones or arrowheads as keepsakes, and defacing canyon walls with graffiti are all actions that degrade the parks for other visitors. In addition, it's against the law. When you visit any of the sites run by the National Park Service, you are viewing America's treasures.
Yes, you can sleep in your car in Death Valley, but only in designated campgrounds. It is not allowed to sleep in your car outside of these designated areas or along the side of the road.
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.
That hot, dry air in Death Valley National can potentially have a pretty big impact on your vehicle's performance. You'll even see signs in a few areas of the park warning drivers to turn off the car's air conditioner so that it doesn't overheat.
It is best to stay with your vehicle if it breaks down. On main roads, another traveler should come along sooner than you could walk for help. Leave the car's hood up and/or mark the road with a large X visible to aircraft.
You can technically camp anywhere for free in Death Valley, as long as you are obeying by this prohibited places list. But if you're wanting to be in an actual campground, tent camp for free at Emigrant, Wildrose, Thorndike, or Mahogany Flat.
Half the park is after dark, so be sure to take advantage of Death Valley's dark skies and stay after sunset. Experiencing night in the park can be as simple as finding a quiet place to look up and enjoy the stars.
It tells us that this fundamental purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for their enjoyment in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
As in all national parks, do not feed, collect, disturb, or harm park wildlife, plant life, or other natural and cultural features. Hike only on designated trails. Hikers must stay on established trails on Anacapa, Santa Barbara, and San Miguel Islands. Remove your garbage and secure your food.
Violations of these regulations may subject individuals to penalties ranging from three months imprisonment, a $100 fine, or both, see 16 U.S.C. § 9a; to 6 months imprisonment, a $500 fine, or both, see 16 U.S.C. § § 3 and 551.
Does anyone live in Death Valley? Death Valley is the historic homeland of the Timbasha Shoshone. “Some members of the tribe still live within Death Valley, and their village is in Furnace Creek,” Wines said. “It's right here in the center of the park.
Death Valley was given its forbidding name by a group of pioneers lost here in the winter of 1849-1850. Even though, as far as we know, only one of the group died here, they all assumed that this valley would be their grave.
The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts, protecting the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and its diverse environment of salt-flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons and mountains.
More than 300 people live year-round in Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth. Here's what it's like. With average daytime temperatures of nearly 120 degrees in August, Death Valley is one of the hottest regions in the world.
Generally, still photography and filming that require a permit under 36 CFR 5.5 are prohibited in the roughly 93% of Death Valley National Park that is designated Wilderness. On this Wilderness map, designated Wilderness is shaded purple, non-wilderness is white.
Backcountry camping is free in Death Valley but you must obtain a permit. Do so at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center or the Stovepipe Wells Ranger Station.
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