A national monument until 2019, White Sands National Park is home to the largest gypsum dune field in the ... once underwater of the 1,600-square-mile Lake Otero, which dried up 10,000 years ...

White Sands National Park is truly unique ... It constantly climbs up and down gypsum dunes and skirts the final remnant of ...

While making our way home to Illinois from Arizona we stopped at White Sands. What a delight. The soft sands of gypsum made the mounds a wonderful winter wonderland. Many had sleds. What a beautiful ...

Ten thousand years ago, as the last Ice Age was ending and temperatures rose, an enormous glacial lake in New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin dried up, revealing something unusual: bright-white gypsum sand.

Though it was underwater just 12,000 years ago, White Sands ... s bygone lake. Among those footprints, scientists have found new evidence of ancient activity recorded in the sand — and it ...

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The White Sands National Park in New Mexico features 275 square miles of vast white gypsum sand dunes, offering a spectacular setting for hiking and exploration amidst a breathtaking landscape.

Fossilized footprints, preserved in gypsum ... White Sands is to point the way to a new archive of evidence.” The footprints were made by people walking on damp ground at the edge of a lake.