White Sands National Park
A national park in the Tularosa Basin covering the southern part of the largest gypsum dunefield on Earth. Its dunes reach 18 metres high, and the white crystal sand stays cool underfoot and looks like snow.
- Where
- Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States
- Grade
- Heritage site
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 3 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 32.7797, -106.1717
Get the White Sands National Park stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at White Sands National Park. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your New Mexico volume with your photos and a note.
Near White Sands National Park
Carlsbad Caverns National Park 175 km
A national park in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico, built around the show cave of Carlsbad Cavern. Visitors walk in through the natural entrance or ride an elevator down to the Big Room, a vast chamber hung with formations.
Taos Pueblo 411 km
An ancient pueblo of the Tiwa-speaking Taos people at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, lived in for around a thousand years. Its multi-storey adobe houses are still home to families, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Petrified Forest National Park 422 km
A national park in northeastern Arizona named for its large deposits of petrified wood, ancient logs turned to stone in shades of red, yellow and purple. It also takes in colourful eroded badlands of the Painted Desert, and old Route 66 crosses it.
Big Bend National Park 481 km
A national park in West Texas named for the great bend of the Rio Grande on the border with Mexico. It protects the largest stretch of Chihuahuan Desert in the United States, with the Chisos Mountains rising from it and deep canyons cut by the river.
Mesa Verde National Park 541 km
Some of the best preserved Ancestral Puebloan sites in the United States, protected in a park in southwestern Colorado that is the state's only World Heritage Site. Its stone villages include dwellings built into alcoves under the overhanging cliffs, lived in by Pueblo peoples centuries ago.
Cathedral Rock 567 km
A sandstone butte in the red rock country outside Sedona and one of the most photographed sights in Arizona. Its spires reach 1,514 metres above sea level, and a short, steep trail climbs to the saddle between them.
Monument Valley 589 km
A valley on the Colorado Plateau along the Arizona and Utah line, where sandstone buttes rise as much as 300 metres above the desert floor. It lies within the Navajo Nation, which holds it sacred, and its silhouettes are familiar from decades of Western films.
Grand Canyon National Park 656 km
The national park around the Grand Canyon, the gorge cut by the Colorado River through northern Arizona and often counted among the wonders of the world. From the South Rim, bands of red and buff rock drop well over a kilometre and a half to the river below.
Questions
Where is White Sands National Park?
White Sands National Park is in Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Carlsbad Caverns National Park (175 km), Taos Pueblo (411 km), Petrified Forest National Park (422 km).
How do I get the White Sands National Park stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at White Sands National Park and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your New Mexico volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to White Sands National Park before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your New Mexico volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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