{"id":980,"date":"2009-07-06T13:36:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T03:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/?p=980"},"modified":"2009-09-10T18:11:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T08:11:35","slug":"badwater-basin-death-valley-california-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/badwater-basin-death-valley-california-usa\/980","title":{"rendered":"Badwater Basin, Death Valley, California, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/386\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/MG_6295.jpg\" alt=\"Badwater Basin, Death Valley NP, California, USA\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once a bottom of\u00c2\u00a0 a huge 160-kilometre long and 180-metre deep lake &#8211; Badwater Basin is now a deepest, hottest and driest place in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Located in the eastern part of the Death Valley National Park, 26 kilometres south of Furnace Creek, this place is easy to find.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/390\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/MG_6503.jpg\" alt=\"Badwater Basin, Death Valley NP, California, USA\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Badwater Basin is a huge area, the best way to approach it is to drive along the\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Badwater Road (CA-178) until you reach a large parking area with\u00c2\u00a0wooden platform built just above the lake bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Next to this platform, there is a spring that feeds a small water pool, however concentrated salt makes water in this pool undrinkable,\u00c2\u00a0giving a name to this pace &#8211; Badwater.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/388\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/MG_6463.jpg\" alt=\"Badwater Basin, Death Valley NP, California, USA\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good and bad are very often come together &#8211; salt makes the water undrinkable, but also creates stunning landscapes. Repeated freeze-thaw-evaporation cycles create a thin salt layer with honeycomb \u00c2\u00a0hexagonal shape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/390\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/387\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/MG_6388.jpg\" alt=\"Badwater Basin, Death Valley NP, California, USA\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Badwater\u00c2\u00a0Basin is<br \/>\n&#8211; a lowest place in North America: 86 metres below the sea level, it\u00c2\u00a0is\u00c2\u00a0also a 8th lowest place on the planet.<br \/>\n&#8211; a hottest place in North America: +57C record high (registered on 15th July, 1972) with +47C average maximum in summer.<br \/>\n&#8211; a driest place in North America: average annual precipitation is 4cm. There was no rain recorded\u00c2\u00a0in 1929 and 1953, and just 1.6cm between 1931\u00c2\u00a0and 1934.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/389\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/MG_6501-plus.jpg\" alt=\"Badwater Basin, Death Valley NP, California, USA\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another prominent place in this area is a Devil&#8217;s Golfcourse &#8211; a salt playa with a rough surface formed\u00c2\u00a0by large salt crystals. This place can be reached by a 2-kilometre gravel road that starts about halfway from Furnace Creek to Badwater Basin viewing platform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/391\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-979 \"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/MG_6514.jpg\" alt=\"Badwater Basin, Death Valley NP, California, USA\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All images are available in larger size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a bottom of\u00c2\u00a0 a huge 160-kilometre long and 180-metre deep lake &#8211; Badwater Basin is now a deepest, hottest and driest place in North America. Located in the eastern part of the Death Valley National Park, 26 kilometres south of Furnace Creek, this place is easy to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[276,273,260,274,5,219,275,218,277,217,267,278,259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}