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The White Sands Mall will have a Santa Claus at its Toys for Tots event along with his elves and the Grinch! Christmas on Mainstreet 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2
Feb. 5—RVT.com, an RV travel blog, has named White Sands National Park to its list of 8 Sensational Spring Break Destinations. Located in southern New Mexico in the Tularosa Basin, this gypsum ...
White Sands National Park is a national park of the United States located in New Mexico and completely surrounded by the White Sands Missile Range. The park covers 145,762 acres (227.8 sq mi; 589.9 km 2 ) in the Tularosa Basin , including the southern 41% of a 275 sq mi (710 km 2 ) field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals.
Map of the Tularosa Basin (light blue) and its landmarks, in southern New Mexico and West Texas, U.S. White gypsum sand and Yucca (Yucca elata) plants, in Tularosa Basin at White Sands National Park. The Tularosa Basin is a graben basin in the Basin and Range Province and within the Chihuahuan Desert , east of the Rio Grande in southern New ...
White Sands National Park has been the backdrop to several major movies since 1950 starting with “King Solomon’s Mine.” The 1968 western movie “Hang ‘Em High” was filmed in the park as ...
The desert is located in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico. Its white sands are not composed of quartz, like most desert sands, but of gypsum, hydrated calcium sulfate. Unlike other desert sands, it is cool to the touch, due to the high rate of evaporation of surface moisture and the fact that the sands reflect, rather than absorb, the sun's ...
The entrance to the Hembrillo Basin, Hembrillo Canyon, opens eastwards into the Tularosa Basin and White Sands National Park. The Canyon is partially barred by a roughly north-south trending diabase dike. Westwards is the valley of the Jornada del Muerto, the Sierra Caballo mountains and the Rio Grande. [4]
The museum originally shared a building with the Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce at 1301 N. White Sands Blvd. In 2006 the City of Alamogordo received a $300,000 grant from the State Legislature to buy a historic adobe building at the corner of White Sands Blvd. and Tenth Street as a new home for the museum. [ 8 ]
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