Mar 4, 2016

A rare “super bloom” of wildflowers in Death Valley (Calif.) National Park has covered the hottest and driest place in North America with a carpet of gold, attracting tourists from all over the world and enchanting visitors with a stunning display from nature’s paint brush. Right now, the best flower show is at the south end of Death Valley National Park along Badwater Road, south of Furnace Creek.

: In this Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 photo, a wildflower blooms alongside the road near Badwater Basin in Death Valley, Calif. This season, unusual October storms dropped so much rain in the desert that dormant seeds blossomed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

: In this Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 photo, wildflowers bloom near Badwater Basin in Death Valley, Calif. A rare super bloom of wildflowers in Death Valley National Park has covered the hottest and driest place in North America with a carpet of gold, attracting tourists from all over the world and enchanting visitors with a stunning display from natures paint brush. Right now, the best flower show is at the south end of Death Valley National Park along Badwater Road, south of Furnace Creek. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

: In this Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 photo, wildflowers bloom alongside the road near Badwater Basin in Death Valley, Calif. Death Valley National Park is awash in color from fall rainstorms that provided the needed start to produce a wintertime super bloom of wildflowers for the first time since 2005. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

: In this Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 photo, a tourist walks through a field carpeted with wildflowers near Badwater Basin in Death Valley, Calif. A rare super bloom of wildflowers in Death Valley National Park has covered the hottest and driest place in North America with a carpet of gold, attracting tourists from all over the world and enchanting visitors with a stunning display from natures paint brush. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

: In this Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 photo, Michael Gilbert, top center, and wife, Jan, walk through a field of wildflowers near Badwater Basin in Death Valley, Calif. A rare super bloom of wildflowers in Death Valley National Park has covered the hottest and driest place in North America with a carpet of gold, attracting tourists from all over the world and enchanting visitors with a stunning display from natures paint brush. The display happens about once every 10 years and the last time tourists saw so many spring wildflowers was in 2005. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

: This Tuesday, March 1, 2016 photo shows blooming wildflower Gravel Ghost in Death Valley National Park, Calif. A rare “super bloom” of wildflowers in Death Valley National Park has covered the hottest and driest place in North America with a carpet of gold, attracting tourists from all over the world and enchanting visitors with a stunning display from nature’s paintbrush. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

: In this Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 photo, a tourist photographs wildflowers near Badwater Basin in Death Valley, Calif. Death Valley, one of the hottest and driest places in North America, is carpeted with a rare “super bloom.” The most abundant and eye-catching wildflower is the aptly named desert gold, a large, bright yellow bloom that looks like a daisy. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Wildflowers bloom in Death Valley National Park

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