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There’s a vast expanse in New Mexico where you can hike barefoot, sled any time of the year and feel like you're on another planet. Welcome to White Sands National Park.. A national monument ...
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 ]
White Sands Test Facility, operated by NASA, and including: White Sands Space Harbor; White Sands National Park, desert of white sand dunes in New Mexico, US; Whitesands, a town in Vanuatu; White Sands Shopping Mall, Singapore, in Pasir Ris, Singapore; White Sands, Alberta, Canada, a summer village in Stettler County; White Sands, a 1992 Warner ...
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 Monument is now White Sands National Park, making it the 62nd such park, after a provision was included in a big defense bill.
White Sands Space Harbor (WSSH) is a spaceport in New Mexico that was formerly used as a Space Shuttle runway, a test site for rocket research, and the primary training area used by NASA for Space Shuttle pilots practicing approaches and landings in the Shuttle Training Aircraft and T-38 Talon aircraft.
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness is located in San Juan County, New Mexico, between Chaco Canyon and the De-Na-Zin Wilderness.Its name is a phonetic transliteration of Navajo "áshįįh łibá" meaning "salt, it is grey (grey salt)".