Getting To Death Valley National Park

Visitors getting to Death Valley National Park in California will be driving or taking a commercial tour that includes visiting the park. The closest major airport is the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, 105 miles (169 kilometers) southeast of the park.

There are several paved road entrances on both the east and west side of Death Valley.

• East Side:
  • CA 190 from Death Valley Junction, CA
  • SR 374 from Beatty, NV
  • CA 178 from Shoshone, CA
  • SR 267 from US 95, NV
• West Side:
  • CA 190 from Olancha, CA (SR 136 from Lone Pine, CA)
  • SR 178 (Panamint Valley Rd) from Trona, CA

Many dirt roads enter the park. Popular entrances include: Wildrose Canyon Road, Harry Wade Road, Titus Canyon Road, Death Valley/Big Pine Road, and Saline Valley Road. See the Death Valley Backcountry and Wilderness Access Map for a list of roads and general road conditions.

Note that no services exist along these roads for many miles and there is no cell phone service. Help may be many hours away; travel prepared to self-rescue. Visitors entering the park on a dirt road can pay the entry fee in advance on Recreation.gov and display a printed pass on their vehicle dashboard.

Do not depend solely on your vehicle’s GPS device or your phone’s GPS app. Death Valley is a remote national park and GPS devices/apps are unreliable. There is no street address for the Furnace Creek Visitor Center, however, the map coordinates are: N 36°27.70, W 116°52.00.

There are three gas stations in the park:

• The Oasis at Death Valley (located in Furnace Creek) sells two grades of gasoline and diesel.
• Panamint Springs Resort sells gasoline and diesel.
• Stovepipe Wells Resort sells 87-octane gasoline, but does not sell diesel.

If you are driving an electric vehicle (EV), there are no rapid chargers inside the park. The closest rapid chargers are in Beatty, Nevada, 43 miles (69.2 kilometers) from Furnace Creek. Bring your patience with you since these chargers will be busy during peak visitation times when many other EV drivers will be in the park (such as holidays in fall, winter, and spring).

Furnace Creek:

As of December 2023, the two chargers at The Inn at Death Valley are not working and two of the 4 chargers at The Ranch at Death Valley are working and have adapters, instructions available at the front desk.

Stovepipe Wells:

Four chargers are located at Stovepipe Wells adjacent to the General Store.

The Inn at Death Valley and Ranch at Death Valley, as well as Stovepipe Wells offer dining options in addition to convenience store ready-made sandwiches, wraps, and salads, as well as water and other drinks and sodas. Pahrump, Nevada, 47 miles (76 kilometers) southeast of the park is the closest town at which to find a fully-stocked grocery store.