Southern Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve always has half of what it takes to make a beach — and lots of it. The large, main dunefield covers about 30 square miles, but there are ...

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Comments: Great Sand Dunes National Park boasts the tallest sand dune in North America, Star Dune, which is 750 feet high at an elevation of approximately 8,600 feet above sea level. The park has more ...

Tucked away in the northern tip of the San Luis Valley is one of the country's most unique national parks, the Great Sand Dunes. Standing at approximately 750 feet tall with an estimated 5 billion ...

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DENVER – Colorado will become home to the country’s newest national park when Interior Secretary Gale Norton officially reclassifies the Great Sand Dunes National Monument on Monday. Norton will join ...

ALAMOSA, Colo. (CBS4)- The Great Sand Dunes National Park has been designated as an International Dark Sky Park. That means it has exceptional quality of its dark night skies. The designation also ...

Colorado’s only natural beach is drying up for the season. Medano Creek in Great Sand Dunes National Park runs through the sand during spring runoff, but now the creek bed is mostly dry at the Dunes ...

The Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado is growing by more than 9,000 acres. The land is a portion of the Medano-Zapata Ranch Preserve in the San Luis Valley, which has been held by ...

I took a break from climbing Colorado's mountains to climb something even more difficult: a 650-foot dune in Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. It was the second highest dune in the park. A ...

MOSCA • The campground opened for the season this month, and of course it was full. Of course people from near and far came for this certain spring awakening in Colorado’s most mystical realm. “A ...

MOSCA • The campground opened for the season this month, and of course it was full. Of course people from near and far came for this certain spring awakening in Colorado’s most mystical realm. “A ...