It’s unclear when Death Valley National Park will reopen to visitors after heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hilary forged new gullies and crumbled roadways at the site of one of the hottest places in the world, officials said.
, holds the record for the hottest temperature recorded on the planet — 134 degrees Fahrenheit, reached in 1913.SUGGESTEDMatthew Lamar, a park ranger, told the Times that about 900 of the park’s nearly 1,400 miles of roads have been assessed.
Repair costs are estimated at $6 million, but only for one of the park’s main roads, State Route 190, and a small part of State Route 136. "We don’t have a timeline yet," park spokesperson Abby Wines told The Associated Press on Monday. "Caltrans has said they expect to fully open 190 within three months, but they often are able to open parts of it earlier."Young and adult endangered pupfish at Devils Hole cavern survived, although eggs were likely smothered by sediment, the park said on social media last month. Endangered Salt Creek pupfish also survived, the newspaper reported.
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