White Sands National Park in New Mexico is known for the gypsum sand ... sled locally at Wal-Mart or sporting goods stores.

They may look like mounds of snow, but the dunes in this park are made of a rare form ... Cuatro Ciénegas in Mexico, is only 8 square miles). Hiking and sledding over this vast white expanse of powder ...

Above ground or below, the air in a pair of New Mexico ... and White Sands in the 10th spot, according to a report issued by the National Parks Conservation Association, a century-old park ...

Surely New Mexico would suit them just fine? More than half a century later, it’s clear the oryx is a little too well-suited for White Sands National Park and the missile range. The species ...

Though it was underwater just 12,000 years ago, White Sands National Park — now an arid desert ... which spanned 1,600 miles of what is now New Mexico. In a paper for the peer-reviewed ...

WHITE SANDS, N.M. (KRQE) — White Sands National Park released its visitor count for March 2025 on Monday. The park saw a total of 91,656 visitors that month, which is a 13% decrease from last March.

It covers the Sacramento Mountains, Sierra County Lakes, Eastern Black Range Foothills, and other regions in southern New Mexico ... such as White Sands National Park and Chaparral, to expect ...

White Sands National Park is truly unique. I was awestruck the first time I witnessed the white gypsum sand dunes that seemed ...

At White Sands National Park, history unfolds one 10,000-year-old footprint at ... At that time, grasses covered this area of New Mexico, and large mammals, such as Columbian mammoths and dire wolves, ...

NPS / Alamy Ancient human footprints, preserved in a dry lakebed at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, reveal remarkably vivid vignettes of life in the late Pleistocene: children jumping in ...

White Sands National Park released its visitor count for March 2025 on Monday. The park saw a total of 91,656 visitors that month, which is a 13% decrease from last March. The park has seen 175,611 ...