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 ...

These early humans crossed what is now White Sands National Park some 22,000 years ago, leaving footprints in the sand showing that they dragged something. They lived concurrently with ancient ...