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Death Valley Books

Dante’s View, DVNP

Hiking Book DVNP

Moon Death Valley Book

DVNP Photographers Book

Off Road Death Valley

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Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is one of the hottest places on Earth.

Bad Water

The Badwater Basin is the point of lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet below sea level. It is located 85 miles east-southeast of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of 14,505 feet.

Tallest Peak

The highest point in Death Valley National Park is Telescope Peak, in the Panamint Range, which has an elevation of 11,043 feet. This is one of the few spots that you can see the lowest point and the highest peak in the lower 48 states.

Lying mostly in Inyo County, California, near the border of California and Nevada, in the Great Basin, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Death Valley constitutes much of Death Valley National Park and is the principal feature of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve. It runs from north to south between the Amargosa Range on the east and the Panamint Range on the west; the Grapevine Mountains and the Owlshead Mountains form its northern and southern boundaries, respectively. It has an area of about 3,000 sq miles.

Desert Climate

Death Valley has a subtropical, hot desert climate, with long, extremely hot summers; short, mild winters; and little rainfall.

The valley is extremely dry, because it lies in the rain shadow of four major mountain ranges (including the Sierra Nevada and Panamint Range). Moisture moving inland from the Pacific Ocean must pass eastward over the mountains to reach Death Valley; as air masses are forced upward by each range, they cool and moisture condenses, to fall as rain or snow on the western slopes. When the air masses reach Death Valley, most of the moisture has already been lost and there is little left to fall as precipitation.

Explore Death Valley

Geology of Death Valley

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History of Death Valley

Road Guide DVNP

see also

Death Valley Topo Map
Benchmark California Atlas
Inyo National Forest Map
Inyo Forest Topo Atlas
Jawbone Canyon Map

US 395 map

Amargosa Opera House @ Death Valley Junction

Death Valley Books

Mojave Desert Books

Find Mojave Maps

Mojave Books, Mojave Road, Mojave Trails

Mojave Desert Books


Mojave Desert Books


Mojave Desert Books

Mojave National Preserve is a United States National Preserve located in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, in between Interstate 15 and Interstate 40. The desert preserve was established in 1994, with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act by the US Congress. Previously, it was the East Mojave National Scenic Area, under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management.

Natural features include the Kelso Dunes, the Marl Mountains and the Cima Dome, as well as volcanic formations such as Hole-in-the-Wall and the Cinder Cone Lava Beds. The preserve encloses Providence Mountains State Recreation Area and Mitchell Caverns Natural Preserve, which are both managed by the State Park system – California Department of Parks and Recreation.

Impressive Joshua tree forests are found in parts of the preserve. The forest covering Cima Dome and the adjacent Shadow Valley is the largest and densest in the world. In August of 2020 a wildfire destroyed 1.3 million Joshua Trees around Cima Dome.

The ghost town of Kelso is found in the preserve, with the defunct railroad depot serving as the Visitor Center. The preserve is commonly traversed by 4 wheel drive vehicles traveling on the historic Mojave Road.

Climate in the preserve varies greatly. Summer temperatures average 90 °F, with highs exceeding 105 °F. Elevations in the preserve range from 7,929 feet at Clark Mountain to 880 feet near Baker, CA. Annual precipitation varies from 3″ near Baker, to almost 9″ in the mountains. About 25% of precipitation comes from summer thunderstorms. Snow is often found in the mountains during the winter.

Mojave Desert Books

Mojave Desert Camping, New York Mts.

BLM Maps

Bureau of Land Management
BLM Maps

BLM Maps

Desert BLM lands, California

Download PDF maps
from BLM website:
blmhttps://www.blm.gov/maps

BLM’s Story Maps (web app gallery) via Web App Viewer
https://blm-egis.maps.arcgis.com/

BLM South Yuba River

Paper BLM Maps can be ordered online from Jawbone.org
jawbone.org/ohvmap/index.php/maps-guides/agency-maps

Alturas
Amboy4x4 maps
Beatty
Big Bear Lake
Bishop
Blythe
Borrego
Cuddeback Lake
Darwin Hillstrail map
Davis Dam
Death Valley Junction
Eagle Mountain
El Cajon
El CentroOHV deserts
Isabella Lake
Ivanpah
Lancaster
Last Chance Canyon
Mesquite Lake
Mount Whitney
Needles
Newberry Springs
Owlshead Mountains
Palm Springs
Parker Mapcamp maps
Ridgecrest
Saline Valley
Salton Sea
San Andreas
San Bernardino
Santa Ana
Sheephole Mountainscamp map
Soda Mountains
Tehachapi
Three Rivers
Trigo Mountain
Victorville
Yosemite Valley
Yuma

BLM Camping Utah

BLM for off-road routes and free camping

BLM stands for the Bureau of Land Management and it is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering federal lands. Headquartered in Grand Junction, Colorado and with oversight over 247.3 million acres, it governs one eighth of the country’s landmass.

The agency manages 221 wilderness areas, 27 national monuments and some 636 other protected areas as part of the National Conservation Lands, totaling about 36 million acres. In addition the Conservation Lands include nearly 2,400 miles of Wild and Scenic Rivers, and nearly 6,000 miles of National Scenic and Historic Trails. There are more than 63,000 oil and gas wells on BLM public lands.

BLM OHV Areas

Nelson @ El Dorado Canyon – Lake Mohave

see also – hikers map

California Desert Maps
National Forest Atlas
State Atlas Maps
Utah Maps

Mojave Desert Maps

Mojave Desert Maps / Mojave Camping
Historic Mojave Trail

We have a nice spread of desert topographic maps listed below for the Mojave Desert region of California. Whether you want to hike, mountain bike, camp, climb, play on the sand dunes or just relax and stargaze, we have you covered. The centrally located historic train station, the Kelso Depot, has been totally restored and is now the area’s Visitors Center.

Camping Map Mojave

Free Camping in the Boulders, off Kelbaker Road, N of I-40.

Mojave National Preserve Map
by Tom Harrison Maps

Tom Harrison Mojave Desert Recreation Map: Mojave National Preserve Essex California, Mojave Desert Trails; Cima Dome, Mojave Road, Hole in the Wall, Rings Trail Hike Mojave, Mid Hills, Mid-hills, Providence Mountains, New York Mountains, Kelso Dunes, Kelso Depot, Kelso Road Map Mojave. Durable, waterproof plastic map; Folded. Map Scale: 250K; ISBN# 9781877689369

avenza maps

download digital version of this map –

Tom Harrison Map – Mojave National Preserve

Mojave Desert Maps

Mojave National Park Map #256
NatGeo California Desert Maps

Trails Illustrated Map from National Geographic. Mojave National Preserve Park map #256.

Camping, hiking and stargazing. Sand dunes, lava tubes and dirt roads! Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, Cinder Cone Lave Beds, Kelso Depot Visitors Center, Cima Road, Kelso Dunes, New York Mountains. Back Roads Mojave, Back Country Hiking Map. Scenic Drives to explore. Very detailed & colorful. Waterproof Plastic Map; Tear Resistant. GPS data. ISBN#749717012561

digital maps

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NatGeo Map 256 – Mojave National Preserve Park

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Hiking Climbing US 395 Mojave

Fossil Falls @ US 395 Mojave

Mojave Road Map & Guide

jawbone canyon trail maps
Jawbone Canyon

North Mojave Desert, US Hwy 395 @ Hwy 14

Jawbone Cyn Map / OHV routes / Randsburg Ghost Town / Old Mines & Tunnels / Joshua Trees / Pinyon Pines / Red Rock Canyon

Jawbone OHV Map
Jawbone Canyon OHV North Mojave Desert Map; Topo features, Waterways, Trails & Roads. Motorized & no-motorized trails. Eastern Kern County High Desert. Spangler Hills OHV, Trona Pinnacles National Monument, Randsburg Mining District, 4×4 OHV, Red Mountain, Johannesburg, Red Rock Canyon State Park, Last Chance Canyon, El Paso Mountain Wilderness, Desert Tortoise Preserve, Kiavah Wilderness, Dove Springs OHV, Bright Star Wilderness, Tehachapi Loop, Walker Basin, California City, BLM Camping Mojave California Desert Trails, Southern Sequoia National Forest OHV; 2008 Map by Friends of Jawbone w/ California Trail Users Coalition


Death Valley, Inyo Mts & Saline Valley

And alas, Death Valley National Park is part of the much larger Mojave Desert. Find Death Valley Maps and Death Valley Books. Inyo Mountains separate US 395 (the Owens Valley) from Death Valley, so Inyo National Forest may also be included as a Mojave Desert map. See all the topo quads on the spiral bound Inyo National Forest Atlas.

Off Road Routes to Hot Springs

Saline Hot Pools @ Saline Valley, DVNP

Download Digital Maps

download digital maps of the Mojave desert

CTUC Amboy OHV Map
CTUC Inyo National Forest South (free)
CTUC Mojave Desert OHV Map
CTUC Needles CA OHV Map
CTUC Panamint Valley OHV Map
CTUC San Berdu & Barstow BLM Map

BLM Topo Map – AZ Lake Havasu Guide (free)
BLM Topo Map – AZ Havasu Palms, Sara Park (free)
NPS Map Brochure – Death Valley (free)
NPS Map Brochure – Lake Mead NRA (free)
NPS Map Brochure – Mojave NP (free)
USGS Topo Map – KINGMAN, AZ (free)

Mojave Canyon Maps BLM

Fossil Falls Canyon BLM – Cinder Road @ US Hwy 395