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GET IT ON G E T I T O N Cloudy sky over sand dunes. Stock photo by Luis Rodrigues A 35-year-old Florida man who was recording the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean died when a sand dune collapsed on ...
A starlit night at Great Sand Dunes National Park . The national park was designated an International Dark Sky Park. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains shelter the park from the lights of the Front ...
Starting at a welcome table at the base of the dune, visitors will stroll through a lantern-lit one-mile trail up to the dune climb at dusk. There will be drop-in telescope stations provided by the ...
Tucked in Idaho’s high desert, Bruneau Dunes State Park is a one-of-a-kind blend of sandboarding, stargazing, and solitude.
Great Sand Dunes is one of 27 national parks and monuments, nearly all in the intermountain West, that are designated as dark-sky parks, where light pollution from cities is scant.
Great Sand Dunes National Park has the tallest dunes in North America, but they aren’t the park’s only stars.
Purple, pink, and orange streak across the sky as the dunefield lights up in a dazzling shimmer of gold. I should be sad because nightfall is coming, but instead, I know that soon the shimmer will ...
This New 320-acre Desert Camp Is Near the Tallest Sand Dunes in North America and a Lesser-known National Park — and It Opens in June Welcome to Dunes Desert Camp. You'll never want to leave.
The woman who died at Silver Lake Sand Dunes Sunday after heroically pushing her toddler to safety was the mother of two and the wife of a Kent County sheriff’s deputy.
The Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado is growing by more than 9,000 acres. The land is a portion of the Medano-Zapata Ranch Preserve in the San Luis Valley, which has been held ...
The people behind Idaho's Dune RV, a RV campground near the St. Anthony Sand Dunes, has an opportunity for visitors and locals to get a different look at the famous dunes. That look being from the ...