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White Sands National Park.
national park in Otero and Doña Ana counties in New Mexico, United States
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About White Sands National Park
White Sands National Park is a national park of the United States located in New Mexico and completely surrounded by White Sands Missile Range. The park covers 145,762 acres in the Tularosa Basin, including the southern 41% of a 275 mi2 (710 km2) field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals. This gypsum dunefield is the largest of its kind on Earth, with a depth of about 30 feet (9.1 m), dunes as tall as 60 feet (18 m), and about 4.5 billion short tons of gypsum sand.
Everything about White Sands National Park →- Country
- United States
- Inception
- January 18, 1933, December 20, 2019
- Website
- https://nps.gov/whsa/index.htm