A getaway as 450,000 people descend on Las Vegas for Super Bowl weekend could include a trip to see the desert beauty of Death Valley, and recent rains have extended visitors' chance to see Lake Manly.
Death Valley National Park has opened the southeast entrance near Shoshone, California, allowing travelers to get to the temporary lake at Badwater Basin from the south.
A lake nestled in sand dunes at Death Valley National Park is one of the unexpected sights left by devastating floods that wiped out roads in the park.
DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — Officials and tourists are celebrating the partial reopening of Death Valley National Park after record-breaking rainfall created enough flooding and extensive road damage to close down the popular travel destination, roughly 68 miles northwest of Pahrump.