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Off_Pavement
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Oct 20, 2015

Death Valley NP Road Closures

We've recently had plenty of rain in southern Nevada and along the California border. Here is the current DVNP road report...

CA Highway 190 is open
SR 374 to Beatty is open
Dante's View Road is open (some debris on road)
Emigrant Canyon Road is open
All other Death Valley Roads are closed.
NV Highway 95 is closed from Beatty in both directions. No access to Las Vegas.
Stateline Road/Bell Vista Road to Pahrump is closed
127 between Shoshone and Death Valley Junction is closed.
There is no way to enter Death Valley from Las Vegas/Pahrump from the east.

Access to the park is open via Ridgecrest/Trona via 178/Trona-Wildrose Road or via CA 395 to 190.
  • I'm glad I was able to do my "bucket list" cross country trip than included Death Valley and old route 66 in California in 2014.

    Those are two big items on my list what would be washed out, pardon the pun.

  • The road to Scotty's Castle

    NPS updated today...

    Death Valley Roads
    •Badwater Road..........CLOSED; no access to side roads
    •Big Pine Road..........CLOSED to through traffic .
    •Cottonwood /Marble.......CLOSED due to flood damage
    •Dante's View Road.......Open
    •Daylight Pass.............Open
    •Echo Canyon Road............CLOSED
    •Emigrant Canyon............Open
    •Greenwater Valley Rd......CLOSED due to flood damage
    •Lower Wildrose Rd...CLOSED to through traffic from Wildrose to Panamint Valley .
    •Mustard Canyon.....CLOSED due to flooding.
    •Salt Creek............CLOSED due to flooding.
    •Mosaic Canyon ............Open
    •Racetrack Road .........CLOSED due to flooding.
    •Saline Valley North............CLOSED By Inyo County.
    •Saline Valley South.........Open; some road damage
    •Scotty’s Castle Road.....CLOSED; all access closed due to severe flood damage.
    •Titus Canyon Road........CLOSED due to flooding.
    •Twenty Mule Team Cyn......CLOSED due to flooding.
    •Ubehebe Crater Rd.............CLOSED
    •Upper Wildrose Canyon........Open; 4X4 high-clearance
    Roads OUTSIDE Death Valley
    •Stateline/ Bell Vista Rd....CLOSED due to flooding
    •CA Hwy 127......CLOSED between Death Valley Junction and Shoshone
    •NV Hwy 95.........Open
  • http://www.nvroads.com/icx/pages/incidentlist.aspx

    http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi

    Apparently the state hwy departments are unaware, or the roads are already back open.

    Some park roads closed due to flood damage

    The BADWATER ROAD and all side roads accessed from it are CLOSED due to flood damage. The SCOTTY'S CASTLE ROAD and all side roads accessed from it are CLOSED due to flood damage.
  • Thanks posting. We head to Pahrump for touring Death Valley in 3 weeks. I'll need to see what is and isn't open at the time.