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All in California
Not many names conjure up such emotion like Death Valley does, although the valley has quite a vibrant history. Only a two hour drive from Las Vegas, this is one of the more accessible National Parks, but is only the 19th most visited. Encompassing more than 5000 square miles, the park is larger than Connecticut and is the largest U.S. National Park outside of Alaska.
An abundance of Joshua Trees and unusual rock formations make form a unique landscape along the confluence of the Mojave and Colorado deserts.
It’s hard to believe these weren’t built just to be used as backdrops for sci-fi films. Out of all of the rock formation I’ve ever called “otherworldly”, these cliffs are the most. The combination of sheer walls between layers of bulbous sandstone makes these cliffs look like they were made by someone who doesn’t quite know what cliffs should look like.
A series of otherworldly rock spires, some as tall as 140ft. These pinnacles formed on the lakebed when calcium rich springs interacted with minerals in the lake from as long ago as 100,000yrs to as recent as 11,000 years ago. Similar processes are still occurring today in Mono Lake, an incredibly alkaline (the opposite of acidic) lake ~200 miles north of here.
