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The National Park Service will not allow boats of any kind on Lake Manly, a lake that appeared at Death Valley National Park as it's too shallow.

"Lake Manly" is a temporary lake that forms very rarely in Badwater Basin. It formed after remnants of Hurricane Hilary on August 20, 2023, but was only a shallow reflecting pool.

A temporary lake in Death Valley National Park doubled after recent rains and is now deep enough to launch a kayak. Prior to August, the lake hadn't appeared in 19 years.

NASA’S analysis shows the lake — known as Lake Manly — actually reached 3 feet deep at one point, officials said in an April 16 news release.

Some of that water drained into the basin, and lo and behold, Lake Manly’s death sentence was commuted. Badwater Basin on July 5, 2023 (left), August 30, 2023 (center), and February 14, 2024 ...

Lake Manly, which appears in California’s Death Valley National Park when enough rain falls, recently migrated, thanks to the wind. With not enough water, it’s closed to boats.

The winds blew Lake Manly from its original lakebed. But it also left the water shallower and muddier than before, forcing the National Park Service to close all boating activities in the lake.

The last time Lake Manly swelled to “significant depth” before it reappeared last year was in 2005, Jennette Jurado, a National Park Service spokeswoman, said. “It's very shallow,” Mr ...