A lake has formed in the typically-dry Badwater Basin at Death Valley National Park in California — and it's lasting a surprisingly long time.

Lake Manly, which appears in California’s Death Valley National Park when enough rain falls, recently migrated, thanks to the wind. With not enough water, it’s closed to boats.

Visitors normally flock to Death Valley National Park to feel the searing heat and take in the barren landscape. This fall, they’ve been drawn by a different natural feature: water.

Badwater Basin in Death Valley sits 232 feet below sea level and typically only sees about two inches of rain in a season. Over the past six months, the area has had almost 2 ½ times that from a ...

Visitors view the temporary lake at the Badwater Basin salt flats in Death Valley on October 23, 2023, following flooding last August from Tropical Storm Hilary. The lake is now closed to boating ...

NASA satellite photos show lake formation. Between the two torrential downpours, Death Valley National Park's valley floor has received a record 4.9 inches in the past six months, far surpassing ...

A temporary lake in Death Valley National Park doubled after recent rains and is now deep enough to launch a kayak. Prior to August, the lake hadn't appeared in 19 years.

Death Valley is the hottest place on Earth and among the driest. Now visitors can kayak through parts of the park in the ephemeral Lake Manly. It emerged in August after Hurricane Hilary and has ...

A previously dry area in Death Valley National Park is now home to a lake, following heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hilary. NPS. With a heat wave descending on the region this weekend, the ...

In Death Valley, the winds started to pick up in the afternoon on Feb. 29, and they consistently blew between 20 and 33 miles per hour on March 1 and 2, according to weather data from the National ...

Death Valley's Strange New Lake Has Been ... it now appears to be filling right back up. “Most of us thought the lake would be gone by October,” said Death Valley National Park ranger ...

Over the course of three days last week, winds were strong enough to move a temporary lake, known informally as Lake Manly, 2 miles north, the National Park Service said this week.