The National Park Service at Death Valley National Park plans to reopen Mud Canyon Road and Daylight Pass, which suffered heavy road damage from flash flooding in August, on November 1. Daylight Pass connects the national park to NV-374 and Beatty, NV. Only emergency repairs have been completed, so drivers need to use caution.
Death Valley National Park will partially reopen on Sunday, October 15, 2023. Visitors will be able enter the park via CA-190 from the west via Lone Pine or from the east via Death Valley Junction. All other park entrances will remain closed.
It’s been nearly eight years since a storm of historic proportions pounded Death Valley National Park and did extensive damage in Grapevine Canyon in the northeastern corner of the park where Scotty’s Castle stands. The popular tourist attraction still has not reopened as repair work continues.
That storm was described as a once-in-a-thousand years storm.
There is no date for reopening storm-battered Death Valley National Park, and it might take until December to fully repair all the damage to roads done by the remnants of Hurricane Hilary last month.
Death Valley National Park is still closed due to major flash flood damage. The park had its rainiest day ever on August 20, 2023, receiving more rain than it normally does in an entire year.
Roughly 400 people were marooned inside Death Valley National Park on Monday due to road damage inflicted by storm Hilary, though crews were working to open some routes out of the park.