Zabriskie Point is a popular tourist attraction located in Death Valley National Park. It is located near Furnace Creek and has a great view of badlands in the Death Valley. Due to the location of Zabriskie Point and its land form, it shows wonderful colors during the sunrise hour. Thus many tourists and photographer come visit this place to have an opportunity to take a perfect shot. As we are visiting Death Valley National Park this weekend, we would definitely not miss the opportunity to visit Zabriskie Point.
It took us about an hours to get to Zabriskie Point from Pahrump and we got there around 6:20AM and the sunrise is at 6:50AM. We were about 30 minutes early, but we could start to see the twilight from the East. We got our cameras and tripod out to get ready to take some awesome photos.
There were already quite a lot of people at Zabriskie Point. From the parking lot, there was a path that leads to the view point. The path was about 0.2 miles long. When we got to the view point, there were already many cameras with tripod set up. We recommend to use tripod here since it was still dark and needs long exposure to capture all the necessary colors.
As the time approaches the sunrise hour, we started to see the golden ribbon and the beautiful pink colored cloud on the East side. It was breath taking. We were only able to see due to the cloud and the overcast weather at Death Valley National Park during the weekend.
As the sun rose, we walked down the view point platform onto the rock beneath it to have a better view on the West side. Then we moved the cameras to face the West over the badlands. The sun light shone on the wavy land form with beautifully brushed color was just amazing. The tip of the rock was exactly where the sun light was spotted on and gave a beautiful color on the rock formation.
Overall, the view at Zabriskie Point did not disappoint and it was just so beautiful. Although it was freezing cold in the early morning at this time of the year, we still highly recommend to wake up super early just to enjoy this sun rise view.
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