Dantes View Road

[Max Rockatansky]

Dantes View Road is a rural highway in Death Valley National Park located in the fold of Furnace Creek Wash.  Said roadway branches south from California State Route 190 and ascends 13 miles to the namesake Dantes View at 5,575 feet above sea level.  The last quarter mile of Dantes View Road carries grades of 15%.  What is now Dantes View Road was largely constructed to service the Greenwater and Furnace mines during the first decade of the twentieth century.

https://www.gribblenation.org/2025/07/dantes-view-road.html?m=1

[Scott5114]

But who the heck is Dante?

[Max Rockatansky]

I just assumed the National Park Service was riffing Dante's Inferno.  They seem to be big into Hellscape iconography in Death Valley National Park.  Devils Golf Course comes to mind off the top of my head as having another Hell-themed name. 

[pderocco]

I just assumed the National Park Service was riffing Dante's Inferno.  They seem to be big into Hellscape iconography in Death Valley National Park.  Devils Golf Course comes to mind off the top of my head as having another Hell-themed name. 

I actually found a golf ball at Devils Golf Course.