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What's there to do at Great Sand Dunes? Images from Great Sand Dunes & surrounding area Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) News updated 5/28/07 Calendar updated 12/5/06
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Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve
Bill's One Tank Trip To Alamosa
- Great Sand Dunes National Park Is A Must-See - Yes, the drive to
Alamosa is a long one but when you go, you're taking a trip back in time.
Park
Service vet loves Sand Dunes
- It was on a flight between Denver and Santa Fe 15 years ago that Steve
Chaney first saw the Great Sand Dunes. “I looked down and thought,
‘there’s something that doesn’t belong in the Rocky Mountains,” Chaney said.
“I pressed my nose against the window just to see it.”
SLV Dweller Photo Contest - 1st place photo
- Congratulations to Tonya Poole of Santa Fe, NM for her 1st prize photo
entitled "Sun, sand and surf". The photo was taken on June 18, 2005 at the
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.
How to access dunes?
Federal policies can clash
- Crestone became a gateway community last fall when Great Sand Dunes was
expanded from a national monument into a full-fledged national park.
Paradise in peril?
- Crestone-area residents fear that development and a Sand Dunes park
expansion threaten their easy lifestyle
Sahara in the Rockies
- The nation's largest sand trap piles up in a Colorado valley
Park includes nation's
largest wildlife refuge
- The sign at the entrance still says Great Sand Dunes National Monument and
Preserve, but several hundred people gathered at the dunes on Monday knew
better.
Budget bill helps to buy
Baca Ranch
- The omnibus federal budget legislation that Congress adopted last weekend
includes $3.4 million to complete the purchase of the Baca Ranch in the San
Luis Valley... Acquiring the neighboring Baca Ranch and its water re-
sources for the federal government was the key piece in the long effort to
establish the dunes as a national park.
HOA settles wildfire suit - Group blamed for Sand Dunes blaze will pay
$695,000
- A homeowners association faulted for a wildfire that raged through the Great
Sand Dunes National Monument four years ago has agreed to pay the federal
government $695,000.
Schussing the dunes
- You haven't lived until you've trekked up a dune and skied down 1,000
vertical feet Great Sand Dunes now a national park One of Colorado's most
celebrated outdoor attractions is getting a new status and more land. September 13, 2004 - The Denver Post
The Nature
Conservancy and Partners Complete Acquisition of Baca Ranch
- After more than a decade of work to conserve the 151-square mile Baca Ranch,
The Nature Conservancy today announced it had completed the last of a complex
set of real estate transactions, clearing the way for the protection of the
ranch and the designation of the nation’s newest national park, the Great Sand
Dunes National Park.
Dunes visitation up
- Year-to-date visitation at the Great Sand Dunes National Monument is 5.25
percent higher than last year, reaching 219,934 visitors between Jan. 1 and
Aug. 31. Last month, 43,978 people visited the park.
Allard tries to fit
final piece into Sand Dunes park puzzle
- Pushing to speed acquisition of land to make it part of the proposed Great
Sand Dunes National Park, Sen. Wayne Allard this week urged the U.S.
Department of Justice to approve a waiver that would circumvent a lawsuit
blocking the process.
Court cases
still cloud Baca Ranch deal
- The clouds have nearly cleared over the Baca Ranch title so its sale can be
finalized to create the Great Sand Dunes National Park. “The federal
government has to satisfy itself that the title to the ranch is sufficiently
clear or unclouded to permit it to take title in its name,” Rio Grande Water
Conservation District Attorney David Robbins told the district board during its
quarterly meeting on Tuesday.
National
Park Service seeks comment on Great Sand Dunes road rehabilitation
- Superintendent Steve Chaney announced that the National Park Service is
proposing to rehabilitate the Main Park Road, the Dunes Access Road, associated
parking areas and pull-outs, and the picnic area loop road at Great Sand Dunes
National Monument.
Planning Begins for Baca Refuge - The Planners with the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service have begun work on how the new 92,500-acre Baca
National Wildlife Refuge will be managed.... One of the issues that will
need to be addressed by USFWS planners as well as National Park Service
personnel is if and how to establish a northern entrance to the new Great Sand
Dunes National Park.
Ripples &
Tracks - Medano Creek Advances -
The
seasonal return of the creek flow at the base of dunes is an annual sign of
spring. Park staff at the Dunes call the “return” of the Medano “a symbol of all
that is ‘right’ with the Great Sand Dunes.”
Colorado Getaways - MOSCA PASS /
CARBONATE PEAK / GREAT SAND DUNES - We follow the authors of "The Essential
Guide to the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve." Diane and Charlie
Winger show us just one of the many routes they detail in their book.
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