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Clues:
 * This is the largest national park south of Alaska (3.4 million square miles)
 * The highest mountain in the park, 11,049-foot **Telescope Peak**, lies only 15 miles from Badwater Basin, the lowest point in the U.S. The vertical drop from the peak to Badwater Basin is twice the depth of the Grand Canyon.
 * In 1849 emigrants bound for California's gold fields strayed into the 120-mile long basin, enduring a two-month ordeal of "hunger and thirst and an awful silence." One of the last to leave looked down from a mountain at the narrow valley and said, "Good-bye, Death Valley."

Questions: 1. What is the name of this National Park? 2. What are the two states this national park is located in?

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