Summary: Basin pictured below is a broad salt flat located at the southern end of the park At 85 5 metres below sea level it is the lowest point in the valley and in all of North America Given its low altitude the basin drains a large area and can actually become a full blown lake on rare occasions Above right we see a Landsat 5 satellite image from back in February of
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Image originally found here.