This route is easy to follow and follows established highway the entire time - but it’s 250-plus miles from Las Vegas to Lone Pine, California, lined with curves and one rather intense mountain pass in the heart of the park. Have backup bike gear and a first-aid kit in your pack. Other than the occasional car whizzing by, you’ll essentially have the place to yourself. Located fewer than 200 miles away from both the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, two of America’s most beloved and visited national parks with 6.3 million and 4 million visitors in 2018, respectively, Death Valley attracts a paltry 1.7 million annual visitors. And with more than 750 miles of tarmac and dirt track waiting to be explored, the park deserves the kind of up-close, slow-paced experience that cycling provides. Yet the national park is the largest outside of Alaska, at 3.4 million acres, and all of the park’s paved and dirt roads that are open to vehicles are also open to bicycles. Death Valley is known for its suffocating heat, stifling aridity, and for being the site of the lowest point in the western hemisphere - Badwater Basin - 282 feet below the level of the sea.
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