White Sands National Monument was designated a National Park ... A steady southwest wind keeps shaping and reshaping the ...

A national monument until 2019 ... Now people can be amongst huge, pristine rippled white sand dunes as far as the eye can see. Visitors also flock to the powdery dunes to sled down on plastic ...

They may look like mounds of snow, but the dunes in this park are made of a rare form of crystallized ... and wind and weather erode it over time into an ocean of glittering sand. The entire dune ...

It was originally designated a national monument in 1932 to protect its dunes from gold mining and sand extraction for cement, but for millennia before the designation, indigenous communities have ...

sand dunes, caverns, hot springs, and the mysterious Santa Rosa Blue Hole. Albuquerque’s annual Balloon Festival, Santa Fe’s art, Carlsbad Canyons National Park, White Sands National Park ...