Spend Some Time In Great Sand Dunes National Park At less than one mile long, the hike to Zapata Falls won't take you more than 30 minutes. That means you'll have plenty of time to explore the ...

Flash flooding has closed Medano Pass Primitive Road at Great Sand Dunes National Park due to thunderstorm damage.

Oct. 14, 2007 -- The vacation spot known as Great Sand Dunes National Park, in southern Colorado, boasts the tallest sand dunes in North America.

You can reserve sites online from May 1 to Sept. 30. Pamela Rice, superintendent at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, said this time of year, they are usually all booked.

The Great Sand Dunes National Monument was established in 1932 to protect the tallest dunes in North America. In the late 1990s, the effort to expand the monument into a national park began.

Located right outside the park, the Great Sand Dunes Oasis rents a limited number of sand sleds and boards seven days a week between April and October. 5400 Colorado 150 North, Mosca. 719-378-2222 ...

But these dunes, in the heart of Colorado, are the tallest in North America – sand piled as much as 750 feet high. And something else: forget spending big bucks like on ski slopes.

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.

Great Sand Dunes sees significantly fewer visitors than Rocky Mountain; in 2018, the park had fewer than 500,000 people, according to the National Park Service.

People usually associate giant sand dunes with the desert, not the Rocky Mountains. Yet along the eastern edge of Colorado’s San Luis Valley lies a dune field with mounds of sand up to 750 feet high, ...