I dont Know what the high is for Death Valley , but one Aug a few years back we spent a week in Laughlin Nv. on the river it was 127 there for the whole week , we got tired of the heat and spent the next week in Las Vegas as it was a lot cooler there , it was Only 117 in Las Vegas.
being from Canada , late June, July, August , & early Sep. ,I think you will find the desert southwest very hot, kind of like walking into a oven.
in 1954 I lived in Trona Ca. which is a few miles west of Death Valley it was over 110 there in May.
Have a good trip.
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But there is nothing like the Desert
my wife lived in Wash. State all of here life we made one trip to the desert and we moved here
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As said by everyone else. Don't do it in summer. A young couple and their son are still missing after over 10 years after their van broke down. This summer a young boy died when their car broke down. If you want to visit Death Valley do it in March and April to see the wild flowers. Or in October or November. You can mapquest and see how close I live to there. I only go there between October and April. We normally do the week between Christmas and New Years over in DV or Panamint Valley.
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also the desert around Lake Mead is nothing like Death Valley ,We stayed at a ROD park in Pahrump NV. And made 4 day trips to Death Valley , Pahrump Nv is about 50 or 60 miles from Las Vegas Nv,
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If your vehicle is in good shape to run the air all day in 125F heat while climbing 9% grades then I would go.
I would try to hit Scotty's early (first tour), Titus Canyon(the full one way drive), Nature center, Bad Water or Devils Golf Course, Artists Palette, 20 mule team Borax processing drive by. Maybe not in that order. Plot on the DV map and figure out best route.
**If you're coming from Las Vegas - don't even consider going via I-15 and Baker!- that's the LONG way! You have 2 choices; if you're on the Strip or north of it, *Take Hwy 95 from LV to Beatty, then come to the valley via 374. When you get to the fork downhill from Daylight Pass - if you want to go to Furnace Creek, head left: if you want to go to Scotty's Castle, continue straight down Mud Canyon. 140 miles to FC.
OR - if you're coming from McCarren - the quickest way is Hwy 160, Blue Diamond, Pahrump (head south on I-15); West on Hwy 160, slow going through the housing area, then zoom! At Pahrump go through on main road all the way through town and then some!, then watch for signs for left turn to Bell Vista Rd, (brown sign, DVNP, and a huge Cell Phone tower) and DV via Ash Meadows. (Don't take the first DV sign you see in town - that's Hwy 178 to Shoshone- much longer) Bell Vista Rd takes you through Ash Meadows and right to DV Junction at the Opera House. Turn right one block, then left to Hwy 190. Boom, you're there. 2.0 hrs., 120 mi. to Furnace Creek Visitor Center if all goes well. For variety, go to DV one way, return to LV the other. :-)
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edited 11/09/09 09:16pm by smkettner *
Thanks for the input...did someone say it is HOT in Death Valley in the summer?
At any rate, we will take your advice. We realized it would be unbearably hot there but we thought maybe a drive out to the park so we could say we had been to Death Valley would be worth it. I don't think we will waste our time and we will try to make it back out there at another time.
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