White Sands National Monument is located in Southern New Mexico. The area is in the mountain-ringed Tularosa Basin valley area and comprises the southern part of a 275mi field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals. Gypsum sand does not heat up from the sun, so a popular activity is children and adults alike to walk up and the dunes even in the hottest months of the summer. I remember this park, as well as Carlsbad Caverns, being two of my favorite parks when we visited the west in the summer of 1982. This picture is from my May 2003 visit.
See more pictures from the 2003 visit here.
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