Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
national park in Alamosa and Saguache counties in Colorado, United States
(Redirected from Great Sand Dunes National Park)
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve was originally designated a national monument in 1932, then a wilderness area in 1976, and attained national park status in 2004. The national park designation included a new national preserve in the adjacent Sangre de Cristo Range.
Maps and wide views edit
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Park map
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Backcountry map
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Regional map
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Aerial view
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Satellite view
Dunes edit
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Late day shadows
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Summit of Star Dune, the park's tallest dune
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Star Dune at left and yellow aspens in the mountains
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From top of Star Dune
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Dunes and mountains
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Climber ascends High Dune, one of the park's tallest
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Windblown sand
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Sandboarding
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Dune patterns
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Dunes from valley
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Milky Way over dunes. Great Sand Dunes was designated an International Dark Sky Park in 2019.
Fauna edit
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Great Sand Dunes tiger beetle (Cicindela theatina)
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A female ten-lined June beetle (Polyphylla decemlineata)
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Avocet in snow
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Elk by dunes
Flora edit
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Blowout grass (Redfieldia flexuosa)
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Cottonwood trees
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Aspen trees
Medano Creek edit
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Medano Creek
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Children riding the creek's surge flow
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Full moon over dunes and the creek
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Woman in a sand wheelchair by the creek
Sangre de Cristo Range edit
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Lower Sand Creek Lake
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Upper Sand Creek Lake and Basin
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Aspens above the dunes
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Snow-covered dunes and Mount Herard