Casual · 4 days · 4 nights
Mojave basin to the eastern Sierra · Seven photo stops
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Sleep spot Sleep-planning corridorRoad routing is a planning aid. Verify closures, access, and conditions before driving.
The first day's GPS route begins here. Every later day begins at the prior night's sleeping location.
36.212576, -115.949474Make it your trip
Use the four days as an order, then let heat, wind, road status, and the light decide the pace. In the desert, skipping a stop can be the best version of the trip.
Road and hike times are planning estimates. Recheck weather, closures, permits, and access before departure.Plan your days
Daily stops, drives, and camps, with room for weather and rest.
Leave the campground and get directly into the action with Dante's View before settling at Wildrose. Confirm current passenger-vehicle road conditions, land rules, heat, daylight, and park-road status before the crossing.
1 photograph from this location, made Feb 22, 2026.
Planning allocation · 0h 30m
Drive to · Dante's View parking 36.220652, -116.726516 NPS Death Valley ↗ Open vehicle-access pin ↗Use Artists Palette and Devil's Golf Course as the heat-aware basin circuit, with exposed activity placed in the safest available weather window.
A paved pullout on Death Valley's one-way, nine-mile Artists Drive; vehicles longer than 25 feet are prohibited.
Planning allocation · 0h 30m
Drive to · Artist's Palette parking 36.363532, -116.802734 NPS Artists Palette ↗ Open vehicle-access pin ↗10 photographs from this location, made Feb 19, 2026.
Planning allocation · 0h 30m
Drive to · Devils Golf Course roadside access 36.292401, -116.808146 NPS Death Valley ↗ Open vehicle-access pin ↗Cross to Grapevine and Ubehebe, then use the paved campground road to Mesquite Spring. Continue toward the eastern Sierra on the paved park highways.
3 photographs from this location, made Feb 20, 2026.
Planning allocation · 0h 30m
Drive to · Grapevine roadside access 36.974058, -117.346392 NPS Death Valley ↗ Open vehicle-access pin ↗A Death Valley scenic stop and trailhead at a volcanic crater roughly half a mile wide and more than 500 feet deep.
Planning allocation · 1h 30m
Drive to · Ubehebe Crater parking 37.010941, -117.454928 NPS Ubehebe Crater ↗ Open vehicle-access pin ↗Use paved park highways to US 395 and give Manzanar National Historic Site the time and attention owed to a place where the U.S. government incarcerated more than 11,000 Japanese Americans. Continue only afterward to the Alabama Hills walk and sunset base.
1 photograph from this location, made Feb 22, 2026.
Planning allocation · 2h
Drive to · Manzanar cemetery parking 36.725515, -118.162048 Open vehicle-access pin ↗5 photographs from this location, made Feb 22, 2026.
Planning allocation · 2h
Drive to · Alabama Hills roadside parking 36.611285, -118.124942 Open vehicle-access pin ↗Keep moving
Join the longer Pacific-bound line that also crosses Death Valley and Alabama Hills.