Death Valley National Park
$2,045.00
| Riding Days |
| Weekday |
| Day |
| Meet |
Saturday
| 1 |
| Day 1 |
Sunday
| 2 |
| Armagosa to Artists Drive |
| 3,400' |
| 61 |
| Day 2 |
Monday
| 3 |
| Dante's View |
| 5,600' |
| 50 |
| Day 3 |
Tuesday
| 4 |
| 2,500' |
| 90 |
| Day 4 |
Wednesday
| 5 |
| 5,400' |
| 63 |
| Day 5 |
Thursday
| 6 |
| Scotty's Castle |
| 4,200' |
| 87 |
| Day 6 |
Friday
| 7 |
| Stovepipe Wells to Armagosa |
| 2,100' |
| 63 |
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Saturday
| 8 |
| Return Shuttle to Las Vegas |
| --- |
| --- |
Total Miles: 414
Total Elevation Gain: 23,200'
Total Elevation Gain: 23,200'
| Badwater |
| Panamint Range |
Cycling Escapes
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| Mileage |
| Las Vegas Shuttle / Death Valley |
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Join us in Sunny Southern California!
Death Valley is famous for striking views, colorful geologic formations, and
scenic vistas. We'll tour the park by bike, exploring it's scenic roads, rock
formations, sand dunes, ghost towns and even castles.
We'll use two different hotels for our base camps, staying three nights at
Furnace Creek and three nights at Stovepipe Wells. From here we begin
our tour by riding out to Death Valley Junction, a busy railroad stop during
the mining boom and home to the world famous Armagosa Opera House.
Then we ride from Badwater, the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere
at 282 feet below sea level, up to Dante's View, one of the highest points
in the park at 5,475' above sea level.
We'll ride by Devil's Golf Course, which is not actually a golf course at all,
but rather an expansive salt field caused by evaporated bodies of water.
One can actually see the crystallization process at work.
Our hotel at Stovepipe Wells sits next to the most photographed sand
dunes in the world. Walk along them at sunset and see why. In addition to
sand dunes and ghost towns, Death Valley also has a castle! We'll ride out
to the castle, where Guides dressed in period costume and with a 1930's
mindset show us around.
Death Valley Scotty told everyone he built this castle with the riches made
off his secret gold mine. That was not quite the truth. Albert Johnson, a
Chicago millionaire businessman, built the castle and he let his cowboy
mining partner, Scotty, live there as a guest.
She was called the "Queen City of Death Valley." Rhyolite was the most
ambitious and permanent of the boomtowns in Death Valley's mining era.
Estimates are that 8,000-10,000 people lived in Rhyolite between
1905-1909. We'll ride from Stovepipe Wells to Rhyolite ghost town to see
many of the still standing remains of this former boomtown.
Death Valley is famous for striking views, colorful geologic formations, and
scenic vistas. We'll tour the park by bike, exploring it's scenic roads, rock
formations, sand dunes, ghost towns and even castles.
We'll use two different hotels for our base camps, staying three nights at
Furnace Creek and three nights at Stovepipe Wells. From here we begin
our tour by riding out to Death Valley Junction, a busy railroad stop during
the mining boom and home to the world famous Armagosa Opera House.
Then we ride from Badwater, the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere
at 282 feet below sea level, up to Dante's View, one of the highest points
in the park at 5,475' above sea level.
We'll ride by Devil's Golf Course, which is not actually a golf course at all,
but rather an expansive salt field caused by evaporated bodies of water.
One can actually see the crystallization process at work.
Our hotel at Stovepipe Wells sits next to the most photographed sand
dunes in the world. Walk along them at sunset and see why. In addition to
sand dunes and ghost towns, Death Valley also has a castle! We'll ride out
to the castle, where Guides dressed in period costume and with a 1930's
mindset show us around.
Death Valley Scotty told everyone he built this castle with the riches made
off his secret gold mine. That was not quite the truth. Albert Johnson, a
Chicago millionaire businessman, built the castle and he let his cowboy
mining partner, Scotty, live there as a guest.
She was called the "Queen City of Death Valley." Rhyolite was the most
ambitious and permanent of the boomtowns in Death Valley's mining era.
Estimates are that 8,000-10,000 people lived in Rhyolite between
1905-1909. We'll ride from Stovepipe Wells to Rhyolite ghost town to see
many of the still standing remains of this former boomtown.
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2008: November 29 - Dec 6
Bicycle Tour of Death Valley!
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| Elevation Profile |
"You can travel greater distances ---
but no place will take you further away."
but no place will take you further away."
- 8 Days - 7 Nights
- 6 Ride Days
- 7 Nights Lodging
- 15 Rider Limit
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