White Sands National Park
national park in Otero and Doña Ana counties in New Mexico, United States
White Sands National Park is located about 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States, in the Tularosa Basin. The park protects the southern part of a 275-square-mile (710 km2) field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals. The gypsum dune field is the largest of its kind on Earth.
Maps edit
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Park map
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Oblique angle map
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Dunes Drive
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Dune types
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Geologic map
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New Mexico parks
Satellite and aerial edit
Dunes edit
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Dune face
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Yardangs in dunes
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Curving dunes
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Ripples
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Curve
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By the road
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Edge of dunes
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Dawn
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Sunset
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Tourists
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Sledding down a dune
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Military personnel
Plants edit
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Dune plants
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Yucca elata and moon
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Yucca elata
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Gypsum plant stand
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Gypsum plant stands
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Gypsum plant stand sign
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New growth
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Flowers
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Sunset
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Solitary tree
Animals edit
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Bleached earless lizard (Holbrookia maculata ruthveni)
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White Sands prairie lizard (Sceloporus cowlesi)
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Darkling beetle and tracks
General edit
Panoramas edit
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Alkali Flats Trail
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Dunefield panorama from Alkali Flats Trail
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Dunefield panorama from Dunes Drive