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Where To Go Next for Tuesday, August 12
08-14-2008
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Today's Travel News
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 |
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You Want Hot? Try Death Valley.
Here's a fact: it's not really hot where you live.
Another fact: it's really hot only in California's Death Valley National Park, where a large thermometer registers at least 115 degrees Fahrenheit. That's for starters in the hottest, driest and lowest point in the United States.
In fact, the park is one of the hottest places on the planet - second only to El Azizia, a desert in Libya. The highest recorded temperature in Death Valley was 134 degrees Fahrenheit, recorded in 1913.
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Death Valley - three million acres of streaming sand and stone wilderness. |
According to the National Park Service, last year more than 180,500 people traveled to Death Valley National Park in the three hottest months: June, July and August. Visitors flock there from all over the world - it's amazing to see as many as 600 adventurous travelers file out of their air conditioned tour busses to stop for lunch at the Park's Furnace Creek Ranch, many posing for photos with the Ranch's giant thermometer as a backdrop.
In addition to the tour buses - typically traveling to or from Yosemite National Park and Las Vegas - the Ranch hosts golf groups with a penchant for the extreme and automotive companies doing hot-weather testing for new vehicle models. One golf group from Las Vegas stages the ominously named "Heatstroke Invitational" each July. Additionally, Hollywood movies and national magazine photo shoots are staged throughout the Park. Segments of an upcoming film called "Tree of Life" starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn were filmed there in June.
"Those of us who work and live here think 115 degrees is pretty comfortable," said Phil Dickinson, director of sales and marketing for the Furnace Creek Inn & Ranch Resort. "But there is a dramatic difference when the thermometer hits 125 or above. You can really feel it then." Dickinson has lived in Death Valley for more than 10 years.
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