Located in
Death Valley,
California Badwater is a salt pool which has the distiction of
being the lowest point in the
Western Hemisphere at 282 feet below sea
level. Long ago, the now shallow pools were a part of Lake Manly, a once 600 foot deep lake that stretched for over 100 miles.
In a
strange twist of geography, it is only 90 miles from the highest point in the contiguous
United States,
Mount Whitney.