Zabriskie Point Views
Path to Zabriskie Point
October 26th, 2020
We’re back in Death Valley today! Get your water bottle and sunglasses. We’re walking up the hill to see the view at Zabriskie Point. It’s right off the road and only about three minutes up the paved path.
View from Zabriskie Point
Borax was mined in Death Valley from the late 1800s into the 20th century. This viewpoint is named after Christian Brevoort Zabriskie of the Pacific Coast Borax Company. Perhaps more well known these days, the band U2 features Zabriskie Point on the cover of The Joshua Tree album.
Nine million years ago, this area was covered by a lake. The landscape we see today is what remains after the lake dried up, underlying volcanic forces uplifted and tilted the area, and water eroded the sediment. More recent lava eruptions added the darker bands of rock along the hilltops.
More tomorrow,
Kelly
Post of the Day: Adding a bit of light to the darkness as we get through the pandemic together. This series features travel photos from my archives, shared with you while staying close to home.
View from Zabriskie Point
View from Zabriskie Point
View from Zabriskie Point
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A spectacular and desolate landscape. I understand the desire to make it the prefiguration of a destroyed world.
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Spectacular and desolate sums it up perfectly!
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It’s a strange place we live in, isn’t it? 🙂 🙂
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It sure is! 🙂
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Super special place! Have been there last summer..! Bye. K
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Cool! Thanks for stopping by, Kamila.
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There is a beautiful abstract quality to these amazing photos. Love them all 💕
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Thank you! It’s a surreal landscape and very fun to photograph.
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That is almost what I have imagined Mars to look like 🙂
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Right? I agree, Jesper! Thanks for your comment. 🙂
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Amazing landscape, almost looks like some other planet. I caught the name from your earlier posts during your travel and checked it out on street view of Google maps 🙂 and kept checking all the places your travels listed. Street view is very entertaining that way, a poor man’s alternative to a real life visit – and one can fly from one place to another very fast, just like your magic carpet 🙂
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I love street view too! And I get so disappointed when a location I want to see doesn’t have it, LOL. 🙂 It’s great for Death Valley — seeing all the bizarre landscapes from above. We scoped out a few of our camp sites in this way. It IS like a magic carpet!
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