Re: Road conditions
Posted by Kuntal Mondal on January 02, 2004 at 18:21:55:
In Reply to: Road conditions posted by Rose Guerrieri on December 31, 2003 at 22:55:19:
Hi Rose,
We just completed the Death Valley tour in last long weekend (Dec 29-30, 2003). If you plan to visit places like "Racetrack", "Eureka Dunes", you must rent a 4-wheel drive car or at least a V6. Furnace Creek is a pretty good place having straight forward road direction. For moderate hiking, good shoes will be enough. Scotty's castle has a nice 1-hour guided tour - so plan to reach there if you don't have enough holidays in hand. Also do visit "Crater", "Zabriski Point", and "Mosaic Canyon" - these are very lovely places. If you get a cloudy day then you have to face lots of mist during driving. Roads are good - lots of DIP, but for unpaved road don't take the risk if you don't have 4-wheel drive or at least V6 car.
Wish you a safe journey.
Thanx,
Kuntal