Maybe you don’t know, but in a desert there aren’t necessarily only kilometres and kilometres of sand dunes! This is the case in Death Valley, which is composed of many different landscapes and has very few sand and dunes: among them are those called Eureka Dunes. The Eureka Dunes are located in the remote Eureka Valley, an enclosed 3000-foot high basin located northwest of Death Valley. The dunes cover an area only 3 miles long and 1 mile wide, but they are the highest sand dunes in California, perhaps the highest in all of North America. They suddenly rise more than 680 feet above the dry lake bed at their western base. As high as these dunes are, they are dwarfed by the impressive limestone wall of the Last Chance Mountains that rises another 4,000 feet above the valley floor.
