Environmental groups are opposing proposed oil and gas drilling on parcels touching the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Area, and as close as one mile from the boundary of the Great Sand Dunes ...

For the Great Sand Dunes tiger beetle, survival depends on a delicate interplay of creeks carrying sand down from flanks of the Sangre de Cristo mountains to the San Luis Valley, and wind sweeping ...

The Great Sand Dunes National Park is open for exploration 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, but it’s best to explore in the early morning or evening during the summer to avoid the dangerously hot ...

Visitors can ski and use snowboards at Colorado's sand dunes. Oct. 14, 2007 — -- The vacation spot known as Great Sand Dunes National Park, in southern Colorado, boasts the tallest sand dunes ...

Listen Now 8min 08sec Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite A couple of people walk at the Great Sand Dunes National Park on April 13, 2019, during a student robotics challenge.

A hiker at the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Mosca, Colorado. We’ve been going to Colorado for decades. But always to the same family-connected places: Estes Park, Rocky ...

Alana Miller writes that the Great Sand Dunes, a national treasure, may be compromised if the Trump administration goes forth with a plan to allow oil and gas drilling nearby.

DENVER (KDVR) — Too many people are visiting Great Sand Dunes National Park for its current infrastructure to keep up, according to park staff, who want the public to weigh in on a plan to ...

The diverse landscape of Great Sand Dunes National Park features 700-foot-tall mounds of sand, grasslands, alpine peaks, and a creek to splash in. It's our 62 Parks Traveler's 19th stop on her ...

The dunes in Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve are the tallest in North America, reaching heights of more than 750 feet. However, cool is a relative term.

No foul play is suspected. The National Park Service says Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve encompasses more than 140,000 acres including rugged high altitude and wilderness terrain.

Colorado's Great Sand Dunes National Park has about 30 square miles of dunes. Nov. 2, 2008 — -- Trudging up seemingly endless sand dunes seems like a task reserved for those lost in major ...