Within Death Valley National Park Paleontologists call it “The Barnyard,” a remote box canyon in an inhospitable desert where slabs of mud stone as big as billboards are indented with fossil tracks left by mastodons, camels, horses, and cats the size of leopards. It is one of the largest, most diverse, and well-preserved deposits of prehistoric mammal and bird tracks known to exist, and a window onto the ecology of Death Valley during the Pliocene Epoch, about 5 million years ago, when things…
Yes — Death Valley National Park Ranger Programs accepts reservations. Check the live availability calendar to see open dates and book.
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Pick your dates on the availability calendar, then reserve through the official booking link. You can also set an alert and we'll notify you if a sold-out date opens up.