backroader Loc: Wherever we park our motorhome

We just spent 2 weeks in Death Valley hiking, taking back roads and enjoying a Superbloom of wildflowers that only occurs when the weatherman gets everything correct! The flowers were tremendous both for their density and for the variety we found. It is one of our favorite National Parks a place we recommend seeing - in February/March, not July/August! The main flower creating the sea of yellow is called Desert Gold. We found a few areas where there was a sea of purple and white created mainly by Phacelia and Brown-eyed Evening Primrose. My favorite was the Desert Five Spot and we saw thousands of them. I included one shot of Titus Canyon which way over the top for a beautiful area to travel through.

Desert Gold superbloom along Badwater Road.

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Desert Five Spot

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Titus Canyon with last year's Desert Trumpet.

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Ronsh Loc: Floresville,Tx.

Thanks for sharing. I think there will be a lot of wild flowers this year.

Bill_de Loc: US

Beautiful for anywhere, awesome for a desert.

I hope you sent a gratuity to the weatherman for getting it all right.

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budcmor Loc: Watervliet, Michigan

Beautiful shots!

roder10 Loc: Colorado Springs

Very Nice capture and the Desert Five Spot is such a beautiful flower. You captured the desert beautiful.

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

Outstanding shots. My wife & I will be there in 10 days. We go every year or so. Last year was good but this year, thanks to El Niño, will be spectacular. Hopefully the wind will cooperate.
Here is a shot of the valley from Dante's View last year.

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backroader Loc: Wherever we park our motorhome

Thanks everyone! BBurns, thanks for the photo from Dante's View! Nice! We are now just south of Death Valley in Ridgecrest and, unfortunately, heard that the storm that past thru here two days ago ended the superbloom in DV. I'm sure the flowers that are still there are magnificent though. The superbloom was more about density but the diversity of flowers in DV is equally amazing. If you hike and have a high clearance vehicle, I would recommend Marble Canyon. No superbloom going on when we hiked it but the diversity of plant life and the canyon itself were wonderful. Here are a few more shots.

An area on Badwater Road where the Brown-eyed Evening Primrose and Phacelia won over the yellow flowers

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This is a Gravel Ghost in DV. There were thousands of them.

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This is Desert Mallow. The only ones we saw were in Marble Canyon.

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