Death ValleyNational Park Hat
Details
- Embroidered panoramic design
- Adjustable snapback hat
- Structured mid-profile 5 panel
- Cotton, handwash
- Free shipping, free returns
- 100% of profits donated to National Parks
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Our Mission
I'm Ian - from Seattle, and at Rainier Hat Co. we're dedicated to giving back to the places that inspire us every day. From the glaciers of Mount Rainier to the grand prismatic springs of Yellowstone, our national parks are treasures that deserve our support.
That's why we've made a commitment that goes beyond the norm: donating all our profits to these natural sanctuaries. It's not just about creating high-quality (and awesome) hats inspired by the beauty of the outdoors, it's about contributing to the preservation of these areas for future generations to enjoy.
Design Inspiration
This design was inspired by a night at Zabriskie Point, where the eroded badlands of the Furnace Creek Formation stretch out below the overlook in ridges and furrows of pale mudstone that an ancient inland lake laid down roughly nine million years ago. After dark, the air cools fast and carries almost no sound, and the terrain below reflects just enough starlight to hold its shape against the sky. You can trace the same contoured sediment layers geologists follow during the day, now rendered in ochre and gray by nothing but stars.
The core of the Milky Way arcs overhead across a sky that Death Valley earns through air so dry it holds almost no moisture to scatter the light. On the western horizon the sky never fully darkens because Las Vegas sits roughly 90 miles out and throws enough light upward to create a pale dome above the mountains, a clear measure of how far artificial light now reaches into remote terrain. A kit fox might move through the gullies below you and somewhere on the salt flats a coyote calls, but mostly you are watching two entirely different skies at once, one shaped by the galaxy and one shaped by the city.
Design Process
Creating these National Park hats with their panoramic embroidery is a detailed process going beyond simply buying and reselling bulk designs.
The first step is a deep dive into what makes each park unique. From the Bison of Yellowstone and the Roseated Spoonbills of the Everglades to the panoramic views of Angels Landing in Zion, our goal is to highlight the beauty of each park. We try to find a specific viewpoint in the park to show off and what we need to do to capture the feeling of being there. While sometimes we ad-lib a bit of the design to include other elements to capture the feeling of the park as a whole, we try hard to find an actual place in the park you can visit even giving you an exact Google maps QR code with every hat.
Then we get to designing! Embroidery is naturally limited in colors and we use a 15 color (the most you'll find) edgeless embroidery process which takes upwards of 90 minutes and over 60,000 stitches per hat, but allows us to show off every detail from that epic mountain range to the colorful flowers in your favorite park.
Finally the design get digitized for embroidery, a sample is made for any final tweaks, and we go to production getting these fantastic hats on your heads.
And 100% of our profits are donated right back to our National Parks .
Visit the Inspiration
Zabriskie Point sits about 5 miles southeast of Furnace Creek on California Highway 190 and is one of the most accessible overlooks in the park. A short paved path leads from the parking area to the main viewpoint, where the eroded badlands of the Furnace Creek Formation spread out below in pale ridges of mudstone.
For night sky viewing, plan your trip around a new moon when the sky stays dark through the night. Death Valley holds Gold Tier status as an International Dark Sky Park, and Zabriskie Point is one of the better spots to take that in since the open terrain gives you a wide view of the horizon.
Summer temperatures in the valley routinely exceed 120°F, so most visitors come between October and April. If you go in warmer months, arrive before sunrise and plan to be back in your vehicle with the AC running well before midday.
Furnace Creek offers the closest services including a campground, a gas station, and a general store. The park charges an entrance fee, and the America the Beautiful pass covers it if you already have one.
