Titus Canyon and Leadfield Ghost Town

Take the best single-day-trip in Death Valley National Park. Drive 28-Miles along a one-lane, 1926, dirt road though Death Valley’s Grapevine Mountains from below sea level to 5,250 feet elevation. See and learn about the history, geology, plants, and animals of Titus Canyon area. Visit and eat your lunch at the ghost town of Leadfield. See a wide diversity of spring wildflowers and colorful and diverse marine and volcanic geological formations. Visit a spring where bighorn sheep drink and Native Americans left petroglyphs for us to puzzle over. Drive through Titus Canyon’s seeing its “narrows,”  walls towering hundreds of feet above,  upside down Bonanza King Formation, colorful travertine, signs of life and ripple marks from a seashore 100’s of millions years old.