Jan. 9 - GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL MONUMENT - All it takes to form dunes is sand, wind and time. All that was required for nature to sculpt the tallest dunes in North America, the Great Sand Dunes, ...

It was originally designated a national monument in 1932 to protect its dunes from gold ... Without the proximity of the Great Sand Dunes, these towns would be left without a major economic engine. In ...

Great Sand Dunes National Park was originally established as a national monument by President Herbert Hoover back in 1932.

March 17, 1932: Herbert Hoover proclaims Great Sand Dunes National Monument. We know it today as Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. The name change followed a series of land acquisitions ...

Colorado has another unique gem waiting to be explored: The Great Sand Dunes National Park! Here, the star attraction isn't a mountain peak but a sea of golden sand—the tallest dunes in North ...

May 27 - Six weeks after a wind-whipped fire consumed 3,000 acres of grass, brush and forest at the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, the blackened areas are turning green, just in time for the busy ...

A worker at Great Sand Dunes National Park told The Denver ... Officials at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, which is also managed by the park service, on Friday announced they ...

The monument is open 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m ... E-mails to spokespeople at Colorado’s other two national parks — Great Sand Dunes and Black Canyon of the Gunnison — went unreturned.

This southwestern park features the largest sand dunes in North America ... They remind us to slow down and appreciate our great country and all it has to offer.” National parks represent the best of ...

Want to hit the slopes during the summer? Try Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. These 750-foot dunes—the tallest in the U.S.—are the perfect place for sandboarding and sand sledding.