DEATH VALLEY EXPERIENCE WITH BACK ROAD VAN ADVENTURES
All-Inclusive
The Death Valley Experience will take you through remote passes of Death Valley National Park that only the adventurer’s seek out.
Trip Duration - 3 days, 2 nights
TRIP OVERVIEW
Along the journey you will explore abandoned gold mines, ghost towns, warm springs, and amazing natural artifacts. This trip is full of amazing views and possible extreme weathers.
All-inclusive with three meals served fresh every day, crafted with locally sourced ingredients.
Journey through America's lowest, hottest, and driest national park.
Experience the extremes and mysteries of Death Valley
Travel through unique and diverse landscape with some of the darkest night skies in the United States
TESTIMONIAL ABOUT BACK ROAD VAN ADVENTURES
“What a blast, great trip!! Backroad Van Adventures you guys rock, thanks for such a great experience!”
- Gretel
What You Will Experience
The Death Valley Experience will take you through remote passes of Death Valley National Park that only the adventurer’s seek out.
Along the journey you will explore abandoned gold mines, ghost towns, warm springs, and amazing natural artifacts. This trip is full of amazing views and possible extreme weathers.
EXCURSIONS WITH THE REVEL CLUB
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Meet Your Guides from Back Road Van Adventures
BENJAMIN BORGENS
Benjamin Co-founded Back Road Van Adventures because of his love for the outdoors and enjoys sharing it to others to pass down in generations. Benjamin has been off-roading and camping for over 20 years and has the knowledge and wisdom to create these routes and trips to instill safety for the environment and its guests. Benjamin enjoys mapping these routes from spending thousands of hours staring at the computer using different mapping software, having paper maps spread out across the floor and actually going to explore these routes to see if they are even possible. He puts Tread Lightly practices in to every one of his routes and encourages everyone else to practice them as well.
CRAIG ARANT
Co-Founder Craig Arant discovered a deep love and enthusiasm for off roading and teaching/helping people since his involvement with a Sheriffs department search and rescue team at the age of 14. Once he was 16, his Dad trusted him with enough with his f-250 4×4 to drive on searches, and from then on has always been seeking Off-Road adventures. In the almost 40 years since then, Craig has traveled the world meeting people in all walks of life and and shared his love of the outdoors and exploration. We like to say Craig has been “overlanding” since before there was a catchy name for it, his inspiration, respect, and love of nature puts him in the perfect place to share with his enthusiasm with others.
CHEF LENA
Our gourmet Chef Lena and Sous Chef Cole prepare fresh meals daily, adding a gourmet touch to camp cooking. Guests can expect delicious breakfasts like French Toast with Sausage or Veggie scramble. Dinners feature a range of options, from Seared steak with whole-roasted sweet potatoes to Farro salad with Fennel and Apple. Lunches are served "Picnic Style" on the trail, offering premade sandwiches with chips, drinks, and fruit, along with condiments, veggies, and cheese for customization. Lena's culinary creations have turned many of our support crew into foodies, and you'll be raving about the meals every day.
4-Day Death Valley Experience with Back Road Van Adventures
SCHEDULE
*Important note: Due to weather, wash outs, road closures, land slides, and all kinds of crazy unknown acts of Mother Nature, routes are subject to change.
DAY 1
GHOST TOWNS
Starting in Trona CA, we will start our journey around 10am making our way into Panamint Valley and in to the old ghost town of Ballarat. Ballarat holds some interesting history of a dark time in California. One of the vehicles on display here is Charles Mansons old Dodge Power Wagon. From Ballarat the trek into Death Valley National Park begins. Our next stop will be the charcoal kilns above Wildrose where we will have lunch at. Once leaving the charcoal kilns we will make our way towards Stove Pipe Wells and find camp along the way where dinner will be served shortly after arriving at camp and the campfire stories begin.
DAY 2
THE LOWEST POINT
Coffee will be ready by 7am and breakfast will be served by 8am. After breakfast we will pack it up and get ready for the adventures that await. Day 2 is packed with fun. Starting just outside of Stove Pipe Wells, we’ll work deep in to Death Valley and stop along the way at the many wonders of the land stopping in Furnace creek for our only fuel stop on the entire trip and continuing to Bad water basin where we will have lunch. Bad water basin is the lowest point in the Northern hemisphere that your can walk at 282 feet below sea level it’s a fascinating site. From Badwater well finding camp near Westside Road. As we arrive, dinner will be on its way to being served and we will enjoy a wonderful night around the campfire eating dinner and telling stories of the fun adventures we all have been on.
DAY 3
TO THE RACETRACK
Coffee will be ready by 7am and breakfast will be served by 8am. After breakfast we will pack it up and get ready for an early departure. Today we are making the drive up from Westside Road to the famous Racetrack. We will stop at points of interest along the way and have lunch at Ubehebe Crater before entering the long dirt road out to the Racetrack. We’ll have plenty of time to walk into the Racetrack and examine the cool trails left behind by the racing rocks. We’ll be camping at the campground on the south side of the Racetrack where dinner will be served and engage in more campfire talk.
DAY 4
LET'S GET TECHNICAL
Coffee will be ready by 7am and breakfast will be served by 8am. After breakfast we will pack it up and get ready for the most technical part of the trail. Down Lippincott Pass into Saline Valley. Once down into Saline Valley we will make our turn on to South Pass Road and climb our way out of Death Valley National Park. We will stop along the trail for lunch then continue along to Highway 190 and make our turn down to Lone Pine CA, where we will sadly say our goodbyes and head our separate ways.
This trip requires a minimum 200-mile range of fuel. If you need to carry extra fuel, please remember to do so. This is not a place we want a fuel crisis.
TESTIMONIAL
"Amazing trip. Can't wait for more!"
“I learned that I can trust the van with what I ask of it. It made it a little more capable because I am confident in it, I now know what I can do with this van because we just all did it together." - Dave
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November 7-10, 2024
Normally $3368 (2 people)
Normally $2593 (solo traveler)
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THE REVEL CLUB MEMBERS (2 PEOPLE)
$3030
THE REVEL CLUB MEMBER (SOLO TRAVELER)
$2333
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NON-MEMBERS (2 PEOPLE)
$3199
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$2463
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