Gypsum dune fields at White Sands National Monument within the Chihuahuan Desert and the Tularosa Basin near Alamogordo, New ...

White Sands was officially re-designated from a national monument to a national park on December 20, 2019. To celebrate the ...

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