Father Crowley Vista Point

Father Crowley Vista Point is a spot just on the edge of Death Valley National Park, where you have great views out over the northern parts of Panamint Valley. Also, Rainbow Canyon runs right next to it. The vista point has toilets, a large parking spot and a kidney crushing ride out to the very end of the hillside.

Center-left is the top of Rainbow Canyon, to the right you can just see the unpaved dirt track where we had our respective kidneys, backs and belief in a loving God shaken by Court's insistence on driving out there in his fancy schmancy Jap SUV.


To the southwest lay more wild and wonderful areas that I would like to visit the next time, chiefly Darwin Falls.


Due east, towards Death Valley.


On the way up there we passed the tiny settlement of Trona, where there are probably more houses that are abandoned than lived in.