>Death Valley has an area of sand dunes, but it's pretty clearly
>defined, and I don't beleive one is allowed to drive in them. To
>drive in dunes you have to go south to the great dunes in the
>vicinity of Brawley California.
South of Beatty, NV there are sand dunes. The Beatty Dunes, west of
US 95 and accessible by graded dirt road often have quadrunners and
buggies on them. This romantic feature was the setting for much of the
movie Cherry 2000, starring Melanie Griffith as its future-shocked and
violence-prone heroine. Most weekdays you'll have this curious
geographical feature to yourself.
If you are coming from Beatty, go south on US-95. You will see the
dunes on the right (west) side of the road. Turn towards them on
N. Valley View, which I think is about 25 miles south of Beatty.
Take any of the unimproved roads that lead directly toward the dunes.
Get your bearings to the dunes from this google map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=beatty,+nv&ie=UTF8&ll=36.662773,-116.571808&spn=0.078076,0.137672&t=h&z=13
The dunes are just south and west of the center of the satellite map.
Valley View Rd is to the east of the dunes.
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