Badwater Basin

Holding the record for the lowest point in North America sitting 282 ft (86 m) below sea level. Badwater Basin is best known for the salt flats that cover nearly 200 square miles (518 square km), and are composed mostly of sodium chloride, calcite, gypsum, and borax.

Once the site of the large Lake Manly which evaporated tens of thousands of years ago. Concentrated salt deposits remain. Today, fascinating geometric salt polygons form on the flats as groundwater rises up through these deposits and evaporates.