Flyway · 6 days · 5 nights
A compact desert route from the Las Vegas side of Death Valley to Ubehebe Crater, Manzanar, and Alabama Hills.
Road routing is a planning aid. Verify closures, access, and conditions before driving.
Sunrise-to-sunset plan
Each row shows the heaviest planned day in that block. Every individual day has a Google Maps driving link from the prior camp or starting hub, through that day's PerchPoints, to that night's sleep site. The daylight figure uses the approximate winter-solstice day length for the region.
Enter from Nevada with Wheeler Pass as the opening landscape stop.
Perches · Wheeler Pass Road North
Artists Palette, Devil's Golf Course, and Dante's View on separate heat-aware field blocks.
Perches · Artist's Palette · Devil's Golf Course · Dantes View Road
Cross to Grapevine and Ubehebe without adding an eastern Sierra transfer after sunset.
Perches · Grapevine · Ubehebe Crater
Exit to US 395, visit Manzanar, then use Alabama Hills as the final base.
Perches · Manzanar Cemetery · Alabama Hills
Photographs behind the route
Every map perch still opens the photographs, factual blurb, and GPS pin that inspired the route. The sequence follows the Flyway direction; the day plan above determines what is realistic before dark.
1 photograph from this location, made Feb 18, 2026.
36.212576, -115.949474Open GPS pin ↗1 photograph from this location, made Feb 22, 2026.
36.220954, -116.726684NPS Death Valley ↗Open GPS pin ↗10 photographs from this location, made Feb 19, 2026.
36.285715, -116.825801NPS Death Valley ↗Open GPS pin ↗A paved pullout on Death Valley's one-way, nine-mile Artists Drive; vehicles longer than 25 feet are prohibited.
36.363533, -116.802566NPS Artists Palette ↗Open GPS pin ↗4 photographs from this location, made Feb 20, 2026.
36.974008, -117.346446NPS Death Valley ↗Open GPS pin ↗A Death Valley scenic stop and trailhead at a volcanic crater roughly half a mile wide and more than 500 feet deep.
37.010077, -117.450540NPS Ubehebe Crater ↗Open GPS pin ↗1 photograph from this location, made Feb 22, 2026.
36.725422, -118.162397Open GPS pin ↗7 photographs from this location, made Feb 22, 2026.
36.613761, -118.124294Open GPS pin ↗Sleep along the route
These are planning leads, not reservations or access guarantees. Repeated use in the itinerary is intentional. Verify the current source before relying on any site.
CA · 36.641077, -117.576324
A RoostAtlas backcountry planning lead; verify current park rules and road conditions.
Generator hours: 0700-1900
CA · 36.487404, -117.641800
A RoostAtlas lead nearer the western side of the park.
Generator 40
Lone Pine, CA · 36.604938, -118.122129
A RoostAtlas lead for the eastern Sierra finish.