Environmental groups are opposing proposed oil and gas drilling on parcels touching the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area, and as close as one mile from the boundary of the Great Sand Dunes National… ...

The scenic landscape features Mouth Herard, the Great Sand Dunes, Crestone Peak, and part of the San Luis Valley. The filmer said: 'It was a beautiful view combined with different places in one ...

Christian Murdock, The Gazette Visitors cross the surging Medano Creek on June 6, 2019, at the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. Christian Murdock, The Gazette Facebook ...

• Mountain View Motor Inn, in Fort Garland, 30 miles southeast of the Great Sand Dunes Visitor Center, rents sand sleds and sandboards year round. Call 719-379-2993.

A few miles north of Alamosa, Colorado, there is a dune field that is monumentally cool. The dunes in Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve are the tallest in North America, reaching heights ...

Thousands of stars fill the dark skies above the sand dunes Wednesday, April 7, 2021, at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. ... This is the view hanging over the San Luis Valley, ...

It is a quiet place, almost startlingly so. A sign at the visitors' centre cited a recent survey that determined Great Sand Dunes National Park to be the "quietest" in the national park system. My ...

ALAMOSA – Colorado’s epic and lengthy winter is causing some changes to a one-of-a-kind Colorado phenomenon. Surge flow at the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is forecast to be at ...

We are thrilled with receiving this recognition as an International Dark Sky Park,” said Great Sand Dunes Superintendent Pamela Rice in a news release. Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument ...

In Southern Colorado, the Great Sand Dunes are alive with the sound of music. The tallest dunes in North America rise above 750 feet — a surreal landscape that sings on scorching summer days.