The scorching deserts of Death Valley portrayed parts of Tatooine including scenes with Jawas, Sand People, droids wandering and the approach to Mos Eisley.

Perched above Death Valley National Park's Dune Sea, this overlook offers a sweeping panorama of wind-sculpted dunes that glow gold in the desert sun. The site is a window into one of North America's most extreme landscapes, where heat, wind, and salt carve the terrain and invite quiet contemplation. It also carries cinematic weight: Death Valley's barren, sun-scorched horizons stood in for Tatooine in Star Wars, lending the films' desert exteriors an iconic edge. Today, standing at the overlook, you feel that same sense of vastness and isolation as the dunes stretch to the horizon under a sky that seems to go on forever.

Death Valley's Jawa Rock sits within one of the planet's most extreme landscapes, where sun-bleached rock formations rise over vast, wind-sculpted sands and the air shimmers with heat. The location was used for exterior shots of a Tatooine desert, featuring Jawas, roaming droids, and Sand People moving along the arid flats toward a Mos Eisley–style settlement. The atmosphere is austere and cinematic: a brutal, sun-drenched glare at midday gives way to long, contemplative shadows at dawn and dusk, inviting visitors to imagine life among scavengers and travelers in a galaxy far, far away. Today, fans and photographers can stand where the film magic happened and feel the desert's quiet grandeur that shaped a legendary sci-fi frontier.