Death Valley National Park
is a national park in the U.S. states of California and Nevada located east of
the Sierra Nevada, occupying an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and
Mojave deserts in the United States. The park protects the northwest corner of
the Mojave Desert and contains a diverse desert environment of salt-flats, sand
dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons, and mountains. It is the largest national
park in the lower 48 states and has been declared an International Biosphere
Reserve. Approximately 95% of the park is a designated wilderness area
