National Park Service (bot)Death Valley National Park welcomed more than 1.32 million visitors to the park in 2025. This was the park’s fourth-highest visitation year, despite extended closures of large sections of the park due to flash flood damage. https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/2025-visitation.htm #DeathValleyNationalPark #DEVA #NPS https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/2025-visitation.htm
DoomsdaysCW#DeathValley sees its most spectacular #superbloom in a decade
The #wildflowers have painted the usually barren landscape of #DeathValleyNationalPark — one of the hottest and driest places in the country — in pretty pink, purple and yellow.
March 8, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT
By Denise Chow
Excerpt: " 'You can think of it like drought evasion,' said Erik Rakestraw, a curator of botany at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. 'In their seed form, it’s like they’re not even existing. They’re just laying in the soil.'
"In the proper conditions, the seeds will germinate. Then, after the flowers are pollinated, they’ll turn back to seeds and the cycle will begin again."
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