Federal Bureau of Land Management officials on Tuesday delayed a push to open 18,316 acres in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve for oil and gas ...

The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes are popular for hiking and camping in the raw wilderness. Campers are advised to come prepared with a compass, GPS, maps, or all three, as assistance is not easily ...

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A hiker at the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Mosca, Colorado. We’ve been going to Colorado for decades. But always to the same family-connected places: Estes Park, Rocky ...

Great Sand Dunes National Park has the tallest dunes in North America, but they aren’t the park’s only stars.

Too many people are visiting Great Sand Dunes National Park for its current infrastructure to keep up, according to park staff, who want the public to weigh in on a plan to improve it.

Not so at Great Sand Dunes, most of which is considered wilderness. Hikers and campers can and do trudge into the dunes to spend a night or two. Of course, they must bring water.

Great Sand Dunes National Park has the tallest dunes in North America, but they aren’t the park’s only stars.

Guiding scientists through snow and memory at Northwest Alaska’s Kobuk Sand Dunes.

These national parks in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio play an important role in conservation and recreation in the Great Lakes.