Stovepipe Wells, California
Stovepipe Wells is a way-station in the northern part of Death Valley, in unincorporated Inyo County, California.
General store and sign at Stovepipe Wells, December 2017
Hikers walk through the narrows of Stovepipe Wells's Mosaic Canyon
Stovepipe Wells's Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes
Late Precambrian Noonday Formation scoured in Stovepipe Wells's Mosaic Canyon by episodic flow. (USGS photo)
Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is thought to be the hottest place on Earth during summer. Death Valley is home to the Timbisha tribe of Native Americans, formerly known as the Panamint Shoshone, who have inhabited the valley for at least the past millennium.
Death Valley as seen from Space Shuttle Columbia in October 1995
Sand dunes at Mesquite Flats
View from Badwater Basin
A Landsat 5 satellite photo of Lake Badwater on February 9, 2005