Welcome to White Sands National Park. A national monument until 2019 ... you may come across pokey plants that won’t be too friendly to bare feet. As the weather gets warmer, the top layer ...

The White Sands National Park Establishment Act increases the size of the park ... (The current park also preserves rare footprints of prehistoric mammals and protects plants and animals that have ...

At White Sands National Park, history unfolds one 10,000-year-old footprint at a time. Two sets of footprints chart a fragile path across the bleached playa of White Sands National Park and into ...