Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is in southern Colorado. It’s known for huge dunes like the towering Star Dune, and for the seasonal Medano Creek and beach created at the base of the dunes. The backcountry Medano Pass Primitive Road winds through a canyon toward the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Trails lead to forests, wetlands and alpine lakes like Medano Lake, which is home to trout and tundra wildlife.
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Red Rocks Amphitheatre is an all-natural, outdoor amphitheater carved out of an enormous red rock formation outside of Morrison, Colorado.
It has played host to the Beatles, John Denver, Jimmy Hendrix, to name a few.
The acoustics is impeccable thanks to the large, tilted, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, the huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, and several large outcrops angled outwards from stage left.
It houses up to 9.525 people.
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Taken through a bit dirty windshield of a moving car - no worries, I was not the driver!
US 40 East - - Cheyenne Wells, CO
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Dust storms were scary, more so when you were caught in one and couldn't walk fast enough to get away as the white sand (gypsum in this case) were so much more difficult to walk on than beach sand!
Why were we caught in a dust storm, couldn't we tell it's coming, one might ask?
Well, because the landscape was getting prettier by the minute, and that someone just had to stop and take "just one more photo, I promise"!
At White Sands National Park, pale gypsum sand covers some 715 square kilometers (275 square miles) of desert, providing ample material for storms when strong winds strike, and that's exactly what we experienced while out on a hike (black diamond grade).
We made it back before the wind really picked up, and spent the next many minutes removing the gypsum powders from our shoes before entering our RV.
By the time we were done, the parking lot was empty except for our vehicle and one other. The patrolling park ranger asked us if we saw anyone still on the trail, we told him everyone was back except for a couple who's heading into the storm. Head's shaking!
The dunes were formed after the evaporation of an ancient sea. Here's the link on the geology of White Sand if you're interested: www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/geology-of-white-sands.htm
PS: That's the gypsum powder I was playing with in my profile photo.
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Driving on the white gypsum powder (very coarse) road was very interesting, automatically our snow driving alert was swung into full gear. We constantly had to remind ourselves to relax, that the road was not slippery.
Photo was taken shortly after we entered the park, it was a ~6-mile fun drive to the group use area.
At White Sands National Park, pale gypsum sand covers some 715 square kilometers (275 square miles) of desert. The dunes were formed after the evaporation of an ancient sea.
Here's the link on the geology of White Sand if you're interested: www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/geology-of-white-sands.htm
Thank you for your visit; I wish you a pleasant day, be safe and healthy!
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