Now people can be amongst huge, pristine rippled white sand dunes as far as the eye can see ... the latest national park in USA TODAY’s yearlong series. What is so special about the White ...

We are a roadschooling family who have been travelling the USA, living in our RV, for two years. Our boys have earned Junior Ranger badges at over 100 National Parks and Monuments, with a goal to earn ...

3. Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, USA The clue is in the name. Great Sand Dunes National Park within the Colorado Rockies is home to North America’s tallest dunes – a spectacular ...

visit Nags Head's wide shores and sand dunes. Or, head to Kitty Hawk or Kill Devil Hills for easy beach access and lifeguards on duty. Yes No ...

Students are swapping their textbooks for shovels in a mission to restore sand dunes at Coney Island Creek. It's considered one of the most polluted waterways in New York City. For decades ...

While droves of vacationers flock to beaches overlooking the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, inland residents enjoy Michigan's rolling sand dunes, ocean-like shoreline and sweeping vistas.

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...