Hike · Telescope Peak trailhead

Telescope Peak

Distance

6.0 mi

Vertical

3,799 ft

Summit

10,951 ft

Difficulty

Very strenuous

Telescope Peak — Chiombe in the Timbisha Shoshone language — is the highest point in Death Valley National Park at 11,049 feet, and the high point of the Panamint Range. From its summit the view sweeps west to Mount Whitney and east to Charleston Peak above Las Vegas, more than…

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Snow-capped Telescope Peak rises 11,000 feet above the salt flats of Badwater Basin — one of the greatest reliefs in the contiguous United States. — Stan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0

The summit ridge of Telescope Peak from the upper trail, late-season wildflowers along the path. — Pimlico27 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Badwater Basin's white salt floor and the Amargosa Range, seen from the summit of Telescope Peak more than two vertical miles above. — Pimlico27 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Telescope Peak viewed from the summit of neighboring Wildrose Peak across the high Panamint divide. — National Park Service · Public domain

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