Visitors from all over the world travel to experience the scorching heat of Death Valley

John Langeler and Linsey Lewis

9 mins ago

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — For truly scorching temperatures, you only have to drive about three hours outside of Las Vegas to Death Valley, California, where several daily records were set last week, though not the biggest.

The absolute temperature record in Death Valley is 134 degrees and was set on July 10, 1913. Although this record has not yet been broken, the temperatures are still extremely high or, as some visitors would call it – perfect.

Adrian Preda brought his two sons from Anaheim to Death Valley because he wanted them to experience the suffocating heat.

“Have we found the only person in Death Valley who finds this tolerable?” asked 8 News Now host John Langler, to which Preda replied, “Not just tolerable, it’s beautiful.”

For the young latecomers, it felt more like a judgment than an adventure.

This is typical in Death Valley in the summer: the higher the temperatures, the more people want to see it. The Furnace Creek Visitor Center was full all day on Monday, and the temperature was a pleasant 22 degrees.

Park Ranger Jeanette Jurado told 8 News Now she’s used to the commotion and it fits with a year of wild weather in the park, which has included destructive flooding, an unexpected lake and expected heat.

“Death Valley keeps us on our toes,” Jurado said. “On days when temperatures reach almost 54 degrees, we know that’s part of the extreme nature of Death Valley.”

But that is what stops people from coming from countries as far away as Austria.

“The extremes of this place are one of the reasons why it is so special,” Jurado said.