The morning light is soft and great for a view from a distance. It also allows you to appreciate the whole drive. Sunset is also amazing as the glow is more golden, but the second half of the drive will be without color.

Artist's Drive is a must do, our last sight in Death Valley National Park right at sunset! Around every corner a different perspective and do stop at Artist's Palette. Enjoy this stunning drive especially at sunset! The colors are amazing, felt like a Georgia O'Keefe painting!

In a park the size of Death Valley, you cannot hike every inch, but fortunately the park service as a number of great drives to expose you too much of the what the park has to offer. Throughout the park, color is recurring feature despite no vegetation. Instead, here the rock and the soils change with the light and the chemistry. Rarely will you ever see the sharp and drastic changes of color in such variety that you will see here in Death Valley and in particular Artist Drive. However, the drive is not all what you see but some truly adventurous twist and turns for the driver as you weave in and out of rock features. There are multiple places on this single lane, one direction road where you can see varieties of color. However, the best is not the first but more the center at Artist Palette. Here the colors are their richest and most diverse. While the colors are amazing, there is so much else to see on the specialty drive so be sure to do because Death Valley NP has so many different things to see while you are here.

Easy drive for any vehicle. Do suggest drivers familiarize themselves with engine braking (in Manual gear of an automatic transmission) - failure can burn up your brakes. Saw this happen today (120F temps outside). Felt bad for the family.