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Traveler's check | Great Sand Dunes National Park

This story originally appeared in the Sunday, September 30, 2007 edition of The Kansas City Star

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  • Sand stats

    Apr 7, 1:59 PM

    Sand in the dunes comes from the San Juan and Sangre de Cristo mountains.

  • About the park

    Apr 7, 1:58 PM

    Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve encompasses 150,000 acres in south-central Colorado. It is among the newest national parks, after being expanded from a national monument in September 2004. It had been a national monument since 1932.

  • Changing seasons

    Apr 7, 1:56 PM

    This story originally appeared Sunday, September 30, 2007

  • Crowning the desert canyons

    Apr 7, 12:00 PM

    The article originally appeared in the Sunday, October 28, 2007 edition of The Kansas City Star

  • Florida’s forces of nature

    Apr 7, 11:38 AM

    This story originally appeared in the Sunday, February 24, 2008 edition of The Kansas City Star

  • Amid the drab landscape in Joshua Tree National Park lies a bounty of treats

    Jun 27, 8:58 AM

    I’m headed south along Park Boulevard, just outside the town of Twentynine Palms, and everywhere I look it’s the same: unrelentingly brown, brown, brown.

  • Discovering Bryce’s best

    Oct 2, 1:44 PM

    Bryce Canyon was established as a national monument in 1923 and became Utah National Park in 1924. In 1928 its name was changed to Bryce Canyon National Park. The park comprises nearly 36,000 acres in southwestern Utah. The park draws 1.5 million visitors a year, said ranger Kevin Poe.

  • More things to see and do in Joshua Tree National Park

    Oct 2, 2:23 PM

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  • The call of the Colorado Rockies

    Oct 2, 2:06 PM

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