Death Valley National Park is open year round and entrance fees apply. You won’t find a manned kiosk on the road going in, but you can pay at the visitor centers and at self-service machines located at Badwater and other spots. There’s an extra fee for a guided tour of Scotty’s Castle.

Australia, with the lowest rainfall, discharges the least in consequence. Antarctica is an exception: it is very dry, and very little snow sublimates. Most water leaves this continent as ice….Water balance of the continents.

The continent is established as the driest continent despite other larger continents such as Africa having larger areas of deserts. The continent also has incredibly high evaporation rate with over 75% of the land mass experiencing a potential evaporation rate that is higher than 98.4 inches per year.

There are three hotels inside Death Valley National Park: The Inn at Death Valley and the Ranch at Death Valley, both at Furnace Creek, and the Stovepipe Wells Village Hotel in Stovepipe Wells, near Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes.

A permit is required to enter this area unless accompanied on a ranger led tour. A permit is required to enter this area. Sensitive species shall not be disturbed. National Park Service lands that comprise the Devils Hole section of Death Valley National Park are closed from sunset to sunrise.

Open All Year 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Location – Scotty’s Castle and the Gas House Museum are located at the north end of Death Valley National Park 53 miles from Furnace Creek and approximately 45 miles from Stovepipe Wells Village.

McCarran International Airport

approximately 130 miles

Furnace Creek Airport

There are no scheduled commercial flights to airports within Death Valley National Park.

Where to go

• Harmony Borax Works is located close to the Furnace Creek Visitor Center and provides a great place to see the stars with little obstruction from the mountains.
• Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes is located close to Stovepipe Wells and is a great spot for seeing A LOT of sky.

Furnace Creek, Scotty’s Castle, Panamint Springs Resort and Stovepipe Wells Village, sell gas within the park. Showers are available for a small fee at Stovepipe Wells Village and Furnace Creek Ranch.

Yes, it can. The Milky Way is visible to the naked eye but you have to see it from a dark sky area away from any light pollution.

Here are 10 of the best places on Earth for a view of the night sky at its most magnificent.

• The Empty Quarter, Arabian Peninsula.
• Atacama Desert, Chile.
• La Palma, Canary Islands.
• Himalayas.
• Volcanoes of Hawaii.
• Western Australia.
• The Alps.
• Wyoming, US.

Roque de los Muchachos Observatory

9 Best Stargazing Destinations in the World

• Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
• Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, New Zealand.
• NamibRand Nature Reserve, Namibia.
• La Palma and Tenerife, Canary Islands.
• Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
• Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal.

Best Places to See Stars in the United States

• Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
• Bryce Canyon, Utah.
• Denali National Park, Alaska.
• Boundary Waters, Minnesota.
• Susquehannock State Forest, Pennsylvania.
• Palm Springs, California.
• Baxter State Park and Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument, Maine.

As viewed from Earth, the visible region of the Milky Way’s galactic plane occupies an area of the sky that includes 30 constellations. The Galactic Center lies in the direction of Sagittarius, where the Milky Way is brightest.

The Cosmic Campground, New Mexico It’s THE darkest place in the United States, located in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. The nearest source of artificial light is more than 40 miles away — making it a “must do” for stargazers. Have you traveled to stargaze before?

Atacama Desert – The best place to see the Milky Way in America. The Atacama Desert is not only the best place to see the Milky Way in America, in the entire Southern Hemisphere. The conditions in this desert are very special. It’s the driest nonpolar desert in the world with an average of 330 clear nights per year.

You can see the Milky Way all year, no matter where you are in the world. It’s visible just so long as the sky is clear and the light pollution is minimal. However, the Milky Way also appears to move in the sky, as the Earth rotates.