Death Valley National Park is located in Nevada and California. Outside of Alaska, it’s our largest national park, checking in at 5,219 square miles. By comparison, Yellowstone is only 3,471 square miles. Death Valley is the hottest and driest place in the country and includes the lowest elevation, Badwater Basin, which is 282 feet below sea level. It was declared a National Monument in 1933 and was eventually expanded and made a National Park by congress in 1994.
You can read about Death Valley National Park in the following posts:
Death Valley: 20 Mules and Zabriskie Point,
Death Valley: From the Bottom Up, and
Death Valley: On Foot.