Badwater Salt Flats

Hike Review:

• After driving to the Devil’s Golf Course and getting a taste of the salt flats, we drove to the Badwater Salt Flats.

• We hiked the Badwater Salt Flats trail to the expansive salt flats. It was an out-and-back type of trail.

• The trail started off as a smooth salt path that turned into bumpy, then really bumpy salt/hardened-mud trail.

• There were a ton of people on this trail. We had to park about a quarter mile from the trailhead.

• The views were flat out amazing.

• The restrooms were smelly from the outside, but not from the inside. Surprise!

What I Learned:

• I thought the salt flats would be totally dry, but it wasn’t. Which meant that when I got up from sitting on the salt flats, my butt had salt water stains.

• Interestingly, there were lots of French people at the salt flats, with the next non-english being Japanese.

Friend:

• I hiked this trail with Jo.

What Happened?

1.9 miles, 50 mins, 23 ft of ascent

I wasn’t sure if I would enjoy the salt flats, but on the way out from Devil’s Golf Course, I turned right instead of left, and we ended up at the Badwater Salt Flats.

The walk was a straight forward one and at the end point, we enjoyed the views that the salt flats provided, as well as tasting a bit of salt (this might have been just me) that looked unspoiled by someone’s feet.

We then walked back to the trailhead and headed off to drive Artist’s Palette.

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