In fact, there is nothing to do with death, understood in the literal sense. Death in the philosophical sense, let us say, rather symbolizes the complete emptiness and lifelessness that reigns in this valley.
The valley has the status of a widely recognized national park, standing on the common land of Nevada and California, two large states. It is very hot there, accordingly, any living creature, whether plant or animal, without the ability to get away from there or get water, is doomed to perish and slowly wither away. Hence life is practically non-existent there.
A brief historical note about Death Valley in California
In an earlier time, in the year 1850, settlers were constantly visiting Death Valley to search for gold, ore, and various metals. But after more than 130 years, in 1984, the valley was reclassified as a biosphere reserve. Well, and the national park, as it is now commonly called, it became in the mid-nineties, when the date of awarding this status coincided with the decision of the authorities to expand the entire territory.
Climate in Death Valley in California
As mentioned above, Death Valley has a hot climate. The July temperature, which is quite normal for it, reaches as high as 46 degrees, and only at night it drops a dozen degrees, stopping at 31 degrees. Death Valley can be cool, this happens in November and ends in February. It doesn’t get hotter than 20 degrees there at this time. As a rule, the cold period is always accompanied by heavy rains, which are not rare in the valley. Starting from April, the valley becomes a source, strange as it may seem, of all kinds of plants, which already in March begin to bloom.
Best time to visit Death Valley in California
As it turns out, not everyone ventures out of a cool, air-conditioned car into the hot desert sun during the summer months. That’s why the valley is empty in the summer. A large number of tourists are noticed in the cold period, for example, in December-January. At this time the valley can be admired as a source of vegetation. There are over a thousand plants.
When March ends, the period of booking hotels and inns begins, ending in April. In a radius of a hundred miles they can be almost all occupied, for every second visitor wants to admire the Castle of Scotti, which looks like the palace of a Spanish millionaire.
Interesting sights of Death Valley in California
Death Valley is one big attraction in itself. Its parched lands, cracked from a severe lack of fluids, doesn’t seem at all unrealistic, it’s real terrain. Looking at it brings to mind scenes from old movies where a traveler reaches his destination but is running low on water and moves his feet, licking his parched lips and wiping sweat from his face.
Geologically, Death Valley can be considered the end of the world, where there is no future. This is what attracts tourists to this place. They want to see it with their own eyes, to feel the atmosphere.
The entire territory of the national park is over five thousand miles, plus more northern valleys and mountains. Together with all this you get a very large space, a huge platform for anything. Here you can walk on sand dunes whose beautiful reliefs satisfy the aesthetic thirst. One immediately wonders how the sand could lie so gracefully and beautifully. One cannot ignore the canyons, created by nature out of marble, amazing blocks of stone lined up in a special order. Volcanoes whose last eruptions took place many years ago. A cluster of shaggy palm trees. And, of course, plants, unique in their kind, which grow nowhere else but in the Valley.
The valley runs north and south for a hundred and forty thousand miles. The fossils that can be found on your route through the national park are more than five hundred million years old. That means they were formed a long, long time ago. They are freely available, you can feel them with your hands, feel the texture. But in other parts of the planet, if there were such fossils, they are no longer there, the earth has gradually picked them up. Up to a certain point, the seabed was a mixture of limestone and sandstone. But then the plates moved, releasing them to the surface.