Badwater Desolation
Badwater may refer to: * Badwater Basin, Death Valley, California; the lowest elevation point in North America * Badwater, California, an unincorporated community located near the basin * Badwater Ultramarathon The Badwater Ultramarathon describes itself as "the world's toughest foot race". It is a course starting at below sea level in the Badwater Basin, in California's Death Valley, and ending at an elevation of 8360 feet (2548 m) at Whitney Portal ...

Badwater Basin
Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America and the United States, with a depth of below sea level. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, is only to the northwest. The site itself consists of a small spring-fed pool of "bad water" next to the road in a sink; the accumulated salts of the surrounding basin make it undrinkable, thus giving it the name. The pool does have animal and plant life, including pickleweed, aquatic insects, and the Badwater snail. Adjacent to the pool, where water is not always present at the surface, repeated freeze–thaw and evaporation cycles gradually push the thin salt crust into hexagonal honeycomb shapes. The pool is not the lowest point of the basin: the lowest point (which is only slightly lower) is several miles to the west and varies in position, depending on rainfall and evaporation patterns. The salt fla ...
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Badwater, California
Badwater is a locale in Inyo County, California. It is located in Death Valley northeast of Bennetts Well, at an elevation of . Badwater has never had a permanent population, though there is a 1946 report of a campsite at Badwater. Badwater is also known for being the start of the Badwater Ultramarathon The Badwater Ultramarathon describes itself as "the world's toughest foot race". It is a course starting at below sea level in the Badwater Basin, in California's Death Valley, and ending at an elevation of 8360 feet (2548 m) at Whitney Portal ..., billed as the toughest foot race on the planet. References Populated places in the Mojave Desert Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Inyo County, California {{InyoCountyCA-geo-stub ...
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