A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Stovepipe Wells Village, United States by TravelPod blogger Leesneed titled "Death Valley National Park - Day five" Leesneed’s travel blog entry: "On our last full day of hiking we wanted to avoid the heat of the desert if we could and find a hike with some good views. I had considered hiking along Dante's View but really wanted to do one of the two really high peaks in the park, either Telescope Peak or Wildrose Peak. Telescope is the highest point in the park at over 11000 feet but was too snow covered and icy to hike. Wildrose wasn't too snowy and was only about 2000 feet lower than Telescope so we chose it for our last significant hike of the trip. The hike begins at the Charcoal Kilns parking area near the end of Wildrose canyon road extension. The Kilns are pretty amazing themselves, having been built in 1876 to provide fuel to process silver and lead ore at a smelter lower in the valley. The kilns only operated for about three years and consequently have been preserved in remarkably good condition. You can actually still smell the smoky odor when standing inside the kilns. Several pinion pine stumps are still visible from along the trail where the trees from the mountainside were cut over 100 years ago to provide the raw material to make the charcoal in the kilns. The trail leaves the north end of the parking area at an elevation of around 7800 feet and climbs over 2200 feet in 4.2 miles to an elevation of 9064 ...