Trav­el north from Fur­nace Creek. Salt Creek is about two miles west of the main road via an easy dirt road. This place is great. Long ago Death Val­ley was a lake with fish in it, as the lake dried up and salin­i­ty increased the fish evolved to cope. Now they are restrict­ed to a short, salty creek which springs up out of the desert, flows for a few hun­dred yards, and then dis­ap­pears back into the sand.