The sand at White Sands is gypsum sand, which is a super unique type of sand. And this is the largest gypsum dune field in ...

The first five miles are paved, but the final three miles consist of a hard-packed gypsum sand road, which is bumpier and has more potholes. Can you walk barefoot at White Sands National Park?

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.

sand, gravel, or crushed stone and water to form concrete, which is then sold and distributed to construction contractors. The Gypsum Wallboard segment mines and extracts natural gypsum rock ...

In this part of the Chihuahuan Desert, however, the land forms a basin, trapping the mineral; water evaporates, leaving the gypsum behind, and wind and weather erode it over time into an ocean of ...

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.