Badwater Saloon

Death Valley National Park


Light meals and bar snacks are served at this colorful bar with Old West knickknacks, cold draft beer and Skynyrd on the jukebox.


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1. Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes

2.04 MILES

The most accessible dunes in Death Valley are an undulating sea of sand rising up to 100ft high next to the highway near Stovepipe Wells Village. They're…

2. Devil’s Cornfield

5.55 MILES

Just east of Stovepipe Wells Village, Hwy 190 passes through this plain that is not studded with corn but with clumps of arrow weed, an evergreen used by…

3. Skidoo

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Some 6 miles southwest of Stovepipe Wells, Emigrant Canyon Rd veers off Hwy 190 and travels south to the park's higher elevations. En route you'll pass…

4. Harmony Borax Works

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5. Aguereberry Point

17.56 MILES

Named for a lucky French miner who struck gold at the nearby Eureka Mine, Aguereberry Point sits at a lofty 6433ft above the desert floor and delivers…

6. Eureka Mine

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7. Death Valley National Park

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The very name evokes all that is harsh, hot and hellish – a punishing, barren and lifeless place of Old Testament severity. Yet closer inspection reveals…

8. Borax Museum

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