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White Sands National Monument, New Mexico
White Sands National Monument in New Mexico is a stunning landscape of white sand dunes, the largest in the world. This unique and beautiful landscape is made up of gypsum sand, which is rare in the world. Visitors can explore the dunes by hiking, sledding, and even
From Wikipedia
White Sands National Park is a national park of the United States located in New Mexico and completely surrounded by White Sands Missile Range. The park covers 145,762 acres in the Tularosa Basin, including the southern 41% of a 275 mi2 (710 km2) field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals. This gypsum dunefield is the largest of its kind on Earth, with a depth of about 30 feet (9.1 m), dunes as tall as 60 feet (18 m), and about 4.5 billion short tons of gypsum sand.