Death Valley, California
Inyo County · Card no. 6242
The hottest and driest place in North America, and the lowest point in the western hemisphere at 282 feet below sea level.
- The world record air temperature of 134 degrees was recorded at Furnace Creek in 1913.
- Rocks move across the Racetrack playa, pushed by thin ice sheets in winter winds.
- Twenty-mule teams hauled borax out of the valley in the 1880s.
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