They may look like mounds of snow, but the dunes in this park are made of a rare form of crystallized gypsum ... Hiking and sledding over this vast white expanse of powder is a singular, otherworldly ...

White Sands National Monument becomes the country’s 62nd national park. What will change? QT Luong’s specialty is photographing national parks with a large-format camera, and one of his points of ...

At White Sands National Park, as moisture within the soil is being reduced by persistent droughts and rising temperatures, 23,000-year-old fossil prints of people and Ice Age megafauna are being ...