White Sands National Park is truly unique. I was awestruck the first time I witnessed the white gypsum sand dunes that seemed ...

WHITE SANDS, N.M. (KRQE) — White Sands National Park released its visitor count for March 2025 on Monday. The park saw a total of 91,656 visitors that month, which is a 13% decrease from last March.

Though it was underwater just 12,000 years ago, White Sands National Park — now an arid desert landscape — abounds with remnants of ancient human history. White Sands Missile Range ...

At White Sands National Park, history unfolds one 10,000-year-old footprint at a time. Two sets of footprints chart a fragile path across the bleached playa of White Sands National Park and into ...

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 ...

What can the rapidly evolving white lizards of White Sands National Monument tell us about how animals can survive environmental change? Ten thousand years ago, as the last Ice Age was ending and ...