Jan. 9 - GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL MONUMENT - All it takes to form dunes is sand, wind and time. All that was required for nature to sculpt the tallest dunes in North America, the Great Sand Dunes, ...

Great Sand Dunes National Park was originally established as a national monument by President Herbert Hoover back in 1932.

May 27 - Six weeks after a wind-whipped fire consumed 3,000 acres of grass, brush and forest at the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, the blackened areas are turning green, just in time for the busy ...

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 ...

Great Sand Dunes National Park is a unique and impressive ... campground and reservations are required. Capulin Volcano National Monument is a lesser known national park unit in northeastern ...

I visited a national park for the first time in August of 2022. Growing up in urban New Jersey, it was quite a culture shock to suddenly be amidst the San Juan mountains of Colorado. I went to the ...