Catch the Milky Way in the Early Morning Hours This Month

Milky Way Arch over Death Valley's Badwater Salt Flats.

Milky Way Arch over Death Valley’s Badwater Salt Flats.

The Milky Way rises over the Badwater Salt Flats in the early morning hours in late March.

I’ve added the 2017 photos above to this post of the one below from 2015.

Milky Way Over Badwater Basin
Light painting the salt flats (below) under the Milky Way in Death Valley’s Badwater Basin, March 2015.

Jeff Sullivan

Jeff Sullivan leads landscape photography workshops in national parks and public lands throughout California and the American West.

Shirlee Severs says:

April 6, 2015 at 8:42 am

Interesting foreground. Beautiful shot!
Zehava Horovitz says:

April 6, 2015 at 9:16 am

Thank you +Jeff Sullivan🌠🌜🌠
Nataschs Moonen says:

April 6, 2015 at 9:31 am

Beautiful composition, and shot
Brenda Bacon says:

April 6, 2015 at 9:54 am

Amazing♡
Pia Carbajal says:

April 6, 2015 at 1:27 pm

Love it
Aarno Tapio Pennanen says:

April 7, 2015 at 8:21 am

Very nice
maria michalak says:

April 8, 2015 at 2:31 am

piękne zjawisko
Jay Singletary says:

April 10, 2015 at 4:48 am

Jeff u do it well!
Jeff Sullivan says:

April 10, 2015 at 4:59 am

Thanks so much!