Here is another image from Death Valley, this time taken at the Twenty Mule Team Canyon, located just up the road from Zabriskie Point. This canyon can be experienced right from the driver’s seat. The road leads into and across a picturesque Death Valley landscape of canyons and badlands. The scenery is impressive. This is a fun terrain to cross in your car and an easy side trip for those driving up to Dante’s View.

The route meanders through mudstone buttes, past clay lined gullies and across sandy washes. Although the name of the canyon conjures up images of the famous twenty-mule-team wagons, originally introduced by William Tell Coleman to transport borax ore to the Harmony Borax works, this trail was not actually part of the original 165 mile twenty-mule-team Borax freight route.