Dante's View, Mountain overlook in Death Valley National Park, US

Dante's View is a mountain overlook in Death Valley National Park positioned at roughly 5,575 feet elevation, looking down onto Badwater Basin. From this vantage point, you can see the white salt flats and the Panamint Range stretching across the valley floor.

In April 1926, businessmen of the Pacific Coast Borax Company, seeking the best vantage point over Death Valley, had nearly settled on Chloride Cliff in the Funeral Mountains. Greenwater's deputy sheriff Charlie Brown led them instead to this spot near the Black Mountains, and they named it after Dante Alighieri, whose Divine Comedy describes the circles of Hell.

The name comes from Dante Alighieri, whose Divine Comedy describes nine circles of Hell, seven terraces of Purgatory and nine spheres of Paradise. In April 1926, Pacific Coast Borax Company businessmen were shown this spot by Greenwater deputy sheriff Charlie Brown and named it on the spot.

Access to the overlook is via a paved road from Highway 190 that leads about 13 miles to a parking area at the summit. Interpretive exhibits at the top help explain the geology and what you are seeing across the valley.

The 1977 film Star Wars used this spot as a filming location: the view from the overlook stands in for the Mos Eisley spaceport on Tatooine, with the port itself added later as a matte painting. Visitors standing at the railing are looking at the same ridgeline seen in that scene.