Ken's Road

Death Valley, California

It's a mystery!

I discovered this track in 2006 by sheer random chance and it became one of my favorite hiking trails.

The pic below shows how it looks if you're standing where the trailhead meets the highway. If you're driving by

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at highway speeds, you really have to be looking at exactly the right instant to spot it. Then you have to know what you're seeing, that it's a road. A track. Was a road. The pic on the right shows it from halfway up the fan on the other side of the highway.

I've never found it on any map, old or recent, nor talked with anyone who knew of its existence. If the Park Service has information about it, I don't know where that info would be or how to access it. Places need to have names so I call it Ken's Road, but that's another story for another time.

Over a ten year period I walked more than 200 miles on Ken's Road and took more than 500 photos, mostly of rocks, which are unusually beautiful and diverse there, even for Death Valley.

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