Saline Valley Road is a 78-mile desert crossing through Death Valley's backcountry to the legendary Saline Valley Warm Springs — a clothing-optional hot spring community that has been a desert escape for decades. The moderate desert dirt road requires full self-sufficiency: no services, no cell coverage, extreme heat October-April temperature swings. But the payoff — a remote spring in the middle of true desert wilderness — is unlike anything else in California.