Death Valley National Park - Zabriskie Point

From Furnace Creek you should start the tour as early as possible the next morning, first going in a southerly direction for 4mi/6.4km to Zabriskie Point, from where there is a fantastic view of the western part of Death Valley and the Panamint Mountains. Here you are surrounded by gold-colored rocks; in the foreground is Manly Bacon Peak, named after one of the men who were the first to cross the desert in 1849, the first white people to do so. Indians of the Shoshone tribe, who called the area "tomesha" or "fiery earth", had been there for 7,000 years.