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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 in materials like plaster. The 275 ...
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 in materials like plaster. The 275 ...
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 ...
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.
White Sands is a census-designated place (CDP) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. [2] It consists of the main residential area on the White Sands Missile Range . As of the 2010 census the population of the CDP was 1,651. [ 4 ]
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 Monument is now White Sands National Park, making it the 62nd such park, after a provision was included in a big defense bill.
The peak is located within the White Sands Missile Range, and hence is closed to the public. However a road on the northwest side leads to the top, where there are radio towers and a heliport. About 20 miles (32 km) to the north lies the Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb test occurred in 1945.