Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK & PRESERVE, Colo. (CBS NEWS) - At first glance you might think the sand dunes of Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve belong to a desert, or an ocean beach, but ...

Thanks to images in publications such as this and all across the internet, we know what to expect when we arrive at Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve. But imagine the early, unsuspecting ...

The tallest dunes in North America sit right in Colorado, creating a surreal landscape of shifting sands, alpine forests, and sparkling streams. Great Sand Dunes National Park is more than just ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (KDVR) ...

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 ...

Most of us who have visited White Sands, think climbing 50 to 60 feet to the top of the gypsum dunes is pretty cool. A few miles north of Alamosa, Colorado, there is a dune field that is monumentally ...

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 ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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. Read more of our summer ...