Navigation and Unpaved Roads in Death Valley National Park A friend of mine emailed me yesterday and sent pictures of folks on a workshop in Death Valley, asking me if I could identify the canyon they had gotten lost in, while trying to reach The Racetrack. Roughly 2/3 of the roads in the park are unpaved, and their condition can vary from week to week. A number of articles have described what can happen when you venture onto those roads without adequate knowledge or preparation: Death by GPS in Desert http://www.ohranger.com/death-valley/news/2011/death-gps-desert "We expect it every summer," said Callagan. "It's actually more unusual to end up without any deaths. It seems like we have one or two every summer." The GPS: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/137646147/the-gps-a-fatally-misleading-travel-companion Experts Warn of 'Death by GPS' as More People Visit Remote Wildernesses http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/...