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

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 ...

Kobuk Valley is logistically and monetarily challenging for the average visitor to access, but landing on the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes is undoubtedly a bucket-list experience. 53.

The researchers plan to study the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes in Alaska’s Kobuk Valley National Park to understand the lifeforms living in nutrient-poor sand dunes subject to extreme conditions ...

Most people show up to camp in the 25-square-mile Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, or paddle and fish for salmon and whitefish along the 61 miles of the Kobuk River within the park’s borders.

The Great Sand Dunes means great big, massive, go on forever sand dunes. If you didn’t know any better, you would think you had been transported to the home planet of Luke Skywalker and were ...

Lots of rain earlier this year led to a showy display of prairie sunflowers at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Some years, prairie sunflowers (Helianthus petiolaris) deliver a ...