Recent rainstorms have “rejuvenated” a temporary lake in the Badwater Basin at Death Valley National Park, allowing visitors for a limited time to kayak in the driest place in the United States, according to an announcement last week by the National Park Service.
“You might think with no drain to the sea, that Death Valley would always have a lake,” Park Ranger Abby Wines said in the announcement. “But this is an extremely rare event. Normally the amount of water flowing in is much less than the evaporation rate.”
