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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.
The 2024 White Sands Balloon Invitational was scheduled for White Sands National Park and the Ed Brabson Balloon Park in Alamogordo, New Mexico Sept. 21-22. The weather only permitted a safe lift ...
Welcome to White Sands National Park. A national monument until 2019, White Sands National Park is home to the largest gypsum dune field in the world – gypsum being a soft sulfate mineral used ...
Sections of White Sands National Park in New Mexico remain closed after a U.S. Air Force F-16 jet crashed in the area.. White Sands past mile marker 3 has remained closed to the public since the ...
The White Sands CDP is located in eastern Doña Ana County at the southern end of the White Sands Missile Range. It is 4 miles (6 km) south of U.S. Route 70 and 27 miles (43 km) east of Las Cruces, the county seat. The entrance to White Sands National Park is 34 miles (55 km) to the northeast, up US 70.
The further process of gypsum erosion abrades the fragile selenite, and other precipitated gypsum, into the pure-white sands covering most of the national park. [2] [3] Lake Lucero is located in a section of the National Park, the Zone of Cooperative Use, to which access is typically restricted for reasons of U.S. military security.
On Oct. 10, White Sands National Park will welcome Randy Granger for a full moon concert at the park's amphitheater for Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Notable features of the basin include White Sands National Park, Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, the Carrizozo Malpais lava flow, Holloman Air Force Base, and the White Sands Missile Range with the historic Trinity nuclear test Site. Tularosa Creek flows westward into the Tularosa Basin just north of the village of Tularosa.