Surreal desert destinations, such as the White Sands National Park and Pinnacles Desert, showcase some of nature’s stunning ...

White Sands, the world’s largest gypsum sand dune field, may be elevated from a national monument to a national park under legislation proposed Friday by New Mexico Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich.

The drag marks and footprints were discovered in present-day New Mexico. Researchers say they're some of the earliest known ...

I was awestruck the first time I witnessed the white gypsum sand dunes that seemed to last ... The Tularosa Basin is located ...

The linear tracks and human footprints found may be evidence of ancient transportation technology.

Ten thousand years ago, as the last Ice Age was ending and temperatures rose, an enormous glacial lake in New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin dried up, revealing something unusual: bright-white gypsum sand.

Mysteriously beautiful, White Sands National Park is home to the world's largest gypsum dune field. Spread across over 275 ...

Because gypsum ... sand. The entire dune field is a massive 275 square miles (by comparison, the second-largest gypsum dune field in the world, Cuatro Ciénegas in Mexico, is only 8 square miles).

(Credit: Jeff Morgan/Shutterstock) Beautiful gypsum sand dune scenery at White Sands ... that left grooves alongside their own footprints in what is now White Sands National Park in New Mexico. New ...