In late 2019, White Sands National Monument got the major upgrade to White Sands National Park. It’s such a unique place in the American landscape that it’s absolutely deserved. In this guide ...

Gypsum dune fields at White Sands National Monument within the Chihuahuan Desert and the Tularosa Basin near Alamogordo, New ...

Footprints made tens of thousands of years ago may look like they’ve been erased by time and weather, but — like invisible ...

the second-largest gypsum dune field in the world, Cuatro Ciénegas in Mexico, is only 8 square miles). Hiking and sledding over this vast white expanse of powder is a singular, otherworldly experience ...

What can the rapidly evolving white lizards of White Sands National Monument tell us about how animals can survive environmental change? Ten thousand years ago, as the last Ice Age was ending and ...

These early humans crossed what is now White Sands National Park some 22,000 years ago, leaving footprints in the sand showing that they dragged something. They lived concurrently with ancient ...