The public can comment on the park’s website or mail their input to the Great Sand Dunes Visitor Center, Attn: Transportation and Transit Planning, 11999 State Highway 150, Mosca, CO 81146.

A wide range of mammals also live in Great Sand Dunes, including American pika, kangaroo rats, bighorn sheep, mountain lions, black bears, elk and Abert’s squirrels, which the park says are ...

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 ...

Originally designated Great Sand Dunes National Monument, the Park, and Reserve were created by an act of the United States Congress on September 13, 2004. The park occupies approximately 149,005 ...

Where to Stay in and Near Great Sand Dunes National Park Travelers visiting between April and October can book a site at Piñon Flats Campground, which is located one mile north of the visitor ...

MOSCA, CO - JUNE 20: Hikers Tara Eisenhour, in front, and Jim Smith, in back, make their way towards the top of the dunes at the Great Sand Dunes on June 20, 2019 in Mosca, Colorado.

Specifically Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, home of the tallest dunes in North America. “We just had one of our scientists do some measurements, and Hidden Dune is the tallest dune ...

Great Sand Dunes National Park, with the Sangre de Cristo Range as a perfect backdrop That became a reality in November 2000 when the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Park Passed ...

Great Sand Dunes National Park is growing. About 9,362 acres of land in the neighboring Medano-Zapata Ranch has been transferred to the park, the U.S. Department of the Interior said Thursday.

I’m standing at the crest of a dune in a sea of gold, buried to my ankles in sand while gazing at the snowcapped fourteeners of the Sangre de Cristo mountains in the distance. It’s a bizarre ...