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Death Valley - Documentary

Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California. It is one of the hottest places in the world at the height of summertime along with deserts in Africa and in the Middle East.

Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of the lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. This point is 84.6 miles (136.2 km) east-southeast of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). Death Valley's Furnace Creek holds the record for the highest reliably recorded air temperature in the world, 134 °F (56.7 °C) on July 10, 1913. This has been contested by other weather experts.

Located near the border of California and Nevada, in the Great Basin, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Death Valley constitutes much of Death Valley National Park and is the principal feature of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve. It is located mostly in Inyo County, California. It runs from north to south between the Amargosa Range on the east and the Panamint Range on the west; the Sylvania Mountains and the Owlshead Mountains form its northern and southern boundaries, respectively. It has an area of about 3,000 sq mi (7,800 km2). The highest point in Death Valley itself is Telescope Peak in the Panamint Range, which has an elevation of 11,043 feet (3,366 m).

Driving on the Mohave desert in California

In I-15 by California-Nevada state border

Mojave Desert in Nevada Utah and Arizona

Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert occupies a significant portion of southeastern California and smaller parts of central California,
southern Nevada, southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona, in the United States. Named after the Mohave tribe of
Native Americans, it displays typical basin and range topography.

The Mojave Desert's boundaries are generally defined by the presence of Yucca brevifolia (Joshua trees); considered
an indicator species for this desert. The topographical boundaries include the Tehachapi together with the San Gabriel
and San Bernardino mountain ranges. The mountain boundaries are quite distinct since they are outlined by the two largest
faults in California: the San Andreas and the Garlock. The Great Basin shrub steppe lies to the north; the warmer Sonoran
Desert (the Low Desert) lies to the south and east. The desert is believed to support between 1,750 and 2,000 species of plants.

While most of the Mojave desert is sparsely populated, there are several large cities there. The largest is Las Vegas,
while other large cities include Lancaster, California and Victorville, California.

Searchlight: Rich Deposits of Gold and Silver - Mining Boom - Mojave Desert in Nevada (1998)

Searchlight is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated town in Clark County, Nevada, United States, at the topographic saddle between two mountain ranges. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 539.

According to Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who has written extensively about his hometown, the most likely story as to how the town received its name was that when George Frederick Colton was looking for gold in the area in 1897, he supposedly said that it would take a searchlight to find gold ore there. Shortly thereafter he found gold, leading to a boom era when Searchlight had a larger population than Las Vegas. At the time, it was in Lincoln County, Nevada. As talk surfaced for carving Clark County, Nevada out of Lincoln County, Searchlight was initially considered to be the county seat. Between 1907 and 1910 the gold mines produced $7 million in gold and other precious minerals, and the town had a population of about 1,500.

Other stories on the origin of the name include a story that Colton was lighting a Searchlight brand match when he discovered the gold ore. Reid dismisses this story, saying that the Searchlight matches were not available in 1898. Yet another story says that Colton thought the area would be a good place because it was on a hill. Colton's mine was called the Duplex, because the gold ore was found on two levels.[2][3]

Searchlight declined after 1917 but hung on as a stop on the Arrowhead Highway. In 1927, U.S. Highway 91 bypassed the town, and its population dropped to 50.

The town had a resurgence in the 1930s and 1940s with the construction of nearby Hoover Dam and was home to the El Rey Bordello in the 1940s and early 1950s until it burned. The last gold mine ceased operating around 1953.

Searchlight experiences a desert climate with hot summers and cool winters. Searchlight's elevation makes temperatures somewhat cooler than lower-elevation areas in the Mojave Desert, such as Baker, California, and Needles, California, and Fort Mohave, Arizona. However, summers can still be extremely hot. Due to Searchlight's altitude and aridity, temperatures drop quickly after sunset, especially in the summer. Winters are mild. Daytime highs in the winter are usually well above freezing, and nighttime lows drop below freezing only a few nights a year.

Notable residents:
Rex Bell, westerns actor and politician. Owned the Walking Box Ranch with his wife Clara Bow. The ranch was a popular destination for Hollywood actors.
Edith Head, costume designer who won more Oscars than any other woman[7]
William Harrell Nellis, aviator for whom Nellis Air Force Base is named[8]
Harry Reid, U.S. Senate Minority Leader

In 1907, the Searchlight Rag by Scott Joplin was published. In the early 1890s, Joplin's friends, the brothers Tom and Charles Turpin, had done prospecting in the Searchlight area. The brothers' frequent stories of this experience, recounted to the patrons of their bar, inspired the title of the rag.



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Drive through Death Valley-HD

A long scenic drive through Death Valley National Park in California. In an RV with no AC at 46°C, it was hot, VERY HOT. But I know that it was worth it just watching this video, in fact, I watched this video and did not even realize I spent an hour, enjoying this scenery...

Driving Through Death Valley National Park in California & Nevada

Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California. It is the lowest, driest, and hottest area in North America.

Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of the lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level.[1] This point is 84.6 miles (136.2 km) east-southeast of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m).[3] Death Valley's Furnace Creek holds the record for the highest reliably recorded air temperature in the world, 134 °F (56.7 °C) on July 10, 1913.[4] This has been contested by other weather experts.[5]

Located near the border of California and Nevada, in the Great Basin, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Death Valley constitutes much of Death Valley National Park and is the principal feature of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve. It is located mostly in Inyo County, California. It runs from north to south between the Amargosa Range on the east and the Panamint Range on the west; the Sylvania Mountains and the Owlshead Mountains form its northern and southern boundaries, respectively. It has an area of about 3,000 sq mi (7,800 km2).[6] The highest point in Death Valley itself is Telescope Peak in the Panamint Range, which has an elevation of 11,043 feet

Sunday Drive through the Mohave Desert into the Spring Mountains

A trip up Interstate 15 through the Mohave Desert (from CA into NV) past Las Vegas and up into the Spring Mountains, NW of Las Vegas.

Loneliest Road in America #5: Western Nevada desert storm at New Pass 2016-06-05

A desert storm brews, and then hits the Loneliest Road of America with nearly dry precipitation near New Pass Summit.

0:05 Leaving Austin, Nevada
1:40 Junction SR 305 Nevada, 89 miles north to Battle Mountain , located on Interstate 80
2:01 Fallon 111; Reno 171; Carson City 172
2:41 Big Creek Road turnoff
3:20 Onconing car
3:39 Austin Airport & SR 722 (former US 50) turnoff


4:00 Shoshone Mountains (ahead)

4:03 Oncoming car
15:19 Mt. Airy Summit 6,700 feet / 2,042 m

Shoshone Mountains

21:16 New Pass Summit 6,348 feet / 1,935 m
Desatoya Mountains



21:37 Lander–Churchill County line
28:23 Fallon 79; Reno 139; Carson City 140
31:00 Mount Augusta 9,967 feet / 3,038 m (right of center), Churchill County


32:26 Eastbound car
37:36 Eastbound car (5:10 between these two cars)
39:40 Desatoya Mountains


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Scenes From Airplane Graveyard, Mojave, California

Virgin Gorge Arizona I15 Vermillion Cliffs Highway Mojave Desert Interstate 15 Nevada and Utah

Virgin Gorge Canyon on the Interstate 15 From Las Vegas you travel through The Virgin Gorge a 15 Mile stretch of the Interstate 15 that passes through Arizona. It is called the Virgin Gorge Or Vermillion Cliffs Highway a part of the Mojave Desert It is a very cool section of Road that is very pretty. It is spectacular what the water has created running through here for so long. I wish I had more time to explore because there is so much to see here. There is so many cool rock formations, wildlife, and plant forms in the desert. There is usually a lot more water running down it but it is winter time. There is only one road in this section of highway and it is the Cedar Pocket pull off. If you ever have a chance to stop here I would really recommend it. It is worth the time to stop and look at all the sites here.

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14 Strangest Things Found in American Deserts

From the million dollar Atari Video Game stash, to the most remote PRADA store in the world, these are 14 STRANGEST Things Found in American Deserts !

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8. Atari Video Game Stash
In Southeastern New Mexico, Atari filled a landfill full of their games cartridges from the 80’s including games like ET, Asteroids, warlords, and centipede. These games didn’t succeed and Atari had to do something with them. Investigators were hired in an attempt to find the games and in 2014 the games were finally uncovered in the landfill near the atari factory after months of planning and investing 50,000 dollars. Once they were found over 900 copies , the games sold on Ebay like hotcakes and even the smithsonian was interested in some copies.

7. The Petrified Forest
Would you believe there’s actually an entire forest of fossilized trees in Arizona!? A long time ago, this modern day desert was covered logs that were naturally transported by a river of now extinct trees on the continent of Pangea. Each of these large rocks that are formed on the ground are actually fossils from the late Triassic Period about 225 million years ago. The went through a process known as petrification when their living cells were filled with minerals, like silica and quartz which helps the wood retain much of its original form. It’s believed that some of these trees were over 200 feet tall when alive

6. Abandoned Prada Store
This fancy designer shop was set up right in the middle of a desolate area in Western Texas. This was actually a permanent art installation, and not a random place to do shopping. Scandinavian Artists, funded the project and wanted to see how the store would look after spending a long period of time in the middle of the desert. The installation was quickly robbed of all the designer products like you could probably imagine only a few days after it was installed. The store was quickly repaired with stronger windows to prevent theft of the handbags and shows inside.

5. Flintstones Bedrock City
Ever wish you be apart of a cartoon sometimes and see what it would look like in reality. The designers of this Flintstones themed attraction park had the same idea in mind but it didn’t turn out to be quite as popular as they had hoped. This is located in the desert just northwest of Flagstaff, Arizona and it’s delightfully creepy. It’s was abandoned for quite some time but it looks like it’s recently been slightly renovated with addition of the slide on the dinosaur's tail.

4. Utah Evaporation Pools
If you were hiking through the Utah desert might think you were slightly hallucinating when you came across these evaporation ponds. However you certainly would not want to take a swim here because these waters actually contain salts with potassium. The ponds provide a brilliant blue light in contrast of the barren Moab desert that surrounds them. When the sun evaporates the pond, what’s left over are potassium crystals which are then sold. The different shades of blue are actually due to how much of the water

3. Death Valley Castle
What’s a huge castle doing in the middle of the desert in possibly the hottest place on Earth? Scotty’s Castle is a two story Spanish mission style villa, located in Northern Death Valley. It’s known as Scotty’s Castle and it was built by Alberty Johnson who was convinced there was possibly gold in Death Valley somewhere by prospector Walter Scott. The claim turned out to be false however the two managed to become friends anyways. The mansion went unfinished due to the stock market crash in 1929 but tours are available for those who are intrigued by this place.

2. Titan Missile Museum
Where else in the US can you visit a 9 ton nuclear warhead? Ok the real one was moved in order for it to become a museum, missile that was used for training excersizes looks quite real! This is the only megaton missile silo that’s actually open to the public from the Cold War and it offers a truly mysterious experience for those who want to visit it. It’s hidden away in the vast, Arizona desert but was decommissioned in 1982 by Ronald Reagan. People can visit the living quarters of the crew who were ready to bring on an apocalypse if asked to do so. You can also spend the night here for the right price. You can even check out the key hole where people would have turned to key for it to be launched!

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Oldest North American Petroglyphs
The Petroglyphs found in the Northern Nevada Desert, is home to North America’s oldest known petroglyphs that are believed to date back to at least 5,600 BC but some can be as old as 14,000 years. That predates the pyramids by at least 3000 years! The rock art is extremely fragile and efforts are being made to protect them. Some of them depict geometric patterns, while others depict a spear and an antelope. Who were the ancient people who left this prehistoric artwork and what were they trying to convey?

Driving around Inyo County, California in the Mojave Desert

Inyo County is on the east side of the Sierra Nevada and southeast of Yosemite National Park in Central California. It contains the Owens River Valley; it is flanked to the west by the Sierra Mountains and to the east by the White Mountains and the Inyo Mountains.

Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the Contiguous United States, is on Inyo County's western border (with Tulare County). The Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, the lowest place in North America, is in eastern Inyo County. The two points are not visible from each other, but both can be observed from the Panamint Range on the west side of Death Valley, above the Panamint Valley. It has the biggest elevation difference of all of the counties and county-equivalents in the contiguous United States.

With an area of 10,192 square miles (26,397 km2), Inyo County is the second-largest county by area in California, after San Bernardino County. Almost one-half of that area is within Death Valley National Park. However, with a population density of 1.8 people per square mile, it has the lowest population density of any county in California.

A flight over the Airplane Graveyard at Mojave Airport in California

The dry Mojave desert climate makes Mojave Air and Space Port an ideal location for aircraft storage. Numerous Lockheed, Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Airbus aircraft that where once owned by major airlines are stored at this airport. Most aircraft that arrive at Mojave Airport will be scrapped, will some are being refurbished and returned to service.

With it's large supply of aircraft to use as props, the airport is used for filming action movies and commercials on a regular base.

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Mojave desert travel

I'm back from my trip in the Mojave desert. We started at Ludlow Ca.
and crossed the desert to the Mojave trail and headed back to Afton and
the I-15.

California Mojave Desert Ghost Town Scenic Drive (50 Degree Celsius)

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The Mojave Desert is bordered by the Great Basin Desert to its north and the Sonoran Desert to its south and east.

Topographical boundaries include the Tehachapi Mountains to the west, and the San Gabriel Mountains and San Bernardino Mountains to the south. The mountain boundaries are distinct because they are outlined by the two largest faults in California – the San Andreas and Garlock faults.

The Mojave Desert displays typical basin and range topography. Higher elevations above 2,000 ft (610 m) in the Mojave are commonly referred to as the High Desert; however, Death Valley is the lowest elevation in North America at 280 ft (85 m) below sea level and is one of the Mojave Desert's most notorious places.

Large parts of the Mojave Desert are often referred to as the high desert, in contrast to the low desert, the Sonoran Desert to the south. Most of the Mojave Desert is above 2,000 ft (610 m), with only Death Valley and the Colorado River basin in the east (including the neighbouring Las Vegas Valley) being lower.

The Mojave Desert, however, is generally lower than the even higher Great Basin Desert to the north. The Mojave Desert occupies less than 50,000 sq mi (130,000 km2), making it the smallest of the North American deserts.

The spelling Mojave originates from the Spanish language while the spelling Mohave comes from modern English. Both are used today, although the Mojave Tribal Nation officially uses the spelling Mojave; the word is a shortened form of Hamakhaave, their endonym in their native language, which means 'beside the water'.



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Another benefit to traveling is coming to see one’s native country in a different light, in a different way. This is done through being able to compare and contrast home from a foreign location, done most always through traveling. A new perspective may be formed

Death Valley - Mohave Desert, California

Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California's Mojave Desert, the lowest, driest, and hottest area in North America.

Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of the lowest elevation in North America at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. This point is 84.6 miles (136.2 km) east-southeast of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). Death Valley's Furnace Creek holds the record for the highest reliably reported air temperature in the world, 134 °F (56.7 °C) on July 10, 1913.

ABANDONED gigantic GHOST TOWN in the California Desert (bloody hospital found)

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