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from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Death Valley, a Rare Lake Comes Alive<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Visitors normally flock to Death Valley National Park to feel the searing heat and take in the barren landscape. This fall, they\u2019ve been drawn by a different natural feature: water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Jill Cowan<\/a> | Photographs by\u00a0Mette Lampcov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A vast lake had appeared almost overnight in Death Valley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells are among the roadside outposts inside Death Valley National Park, while Dante\u2019s View draws tourists at sunset and Hell\u2019s Gate greets visitors arriving from the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer, it is so hot here, along California\u2019s southeastern spine, that some of the roughly 800 residents \u2014 nearly all of them park employees \u2014 bake brownies in their cars. A large, unofficial thermometer in recent years has ticked up to 130 degrees, making it a destination for travelers, and the park has endured some of the\u00a0highest temperatures ever recorded on Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But none of that is what prompted Lata Kini, 59, and her husband, Ramanand, 61, to pack their bags and drive about seven hours to get here on a whim this month. They were drawn instead by the mystique of another natural force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m here because of the water,\u201d Ms. Kini said at Zabriskie Point, a popular vista, as she watched the rising sun paint the undulating stone peaks in shades of pink and deep purple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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