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Established: October 31st, 1994
Area: 3,373,063.14 acres
Visitors (2017): 1,294,827
Death Valley National Park is the hottest, lowest, and driest place in the United States, with daytime temperatures that have exceeded 130 °F. The park protects Badwater Basin and its vast salt flats located at the lowest elevation in North America, −282 ft. The park also protects canyons, badlands, sand dunes, mountain ranges, historic mines, springs, and more than 1,000 species of plants which grow in this geologic graben.