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Closures and Missile Tests
Upcoming Missile Tests: Friday-Saturday, April 27-28 -- Missile test scheduled on both mornings. Highway 70 will be blocked at Red & Yellow checkpoints. No backcountry camping on Thursday and Friday, April 26 & 27. More »
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High Winds
We are in our windy season, so please be aware of possible high winds.
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Backcountry Camping
There will be no backcountry camping available the night of Saturday, April 7, 2012.
Applicants to World Heritage Tentative List
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Proposed Sites by State/Territory Alabama Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church Alabama Civil Rights Churches of Birmingham Alabama Moundville Site American Samoa Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary Arizona Petrified Forest National Park Arizona, California, Illinois, New York,Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, &Wisconsin Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings California Gamble House Colorado Chimney Rock Archeological Area Georgia Central of Georgia Railroad, Savannah Shops & Terminal Facility Georgia Historic Center of Savannah Georgia Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge Hawaii Papahanaumokuakea National Monument Indiana Historic New Harmony Louisiana Poverty Point State Historic Site Maine, New Hampshire, New York, &Kentucky Shaker Villages of the United States Massachusetts Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Michigan Cranbrook Educational Community Minnesota Pipestone National Monument Missouri & Illinois French Creole Properties of the Mid-Mississippi Valley New Mexico Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1 New Mexico White Sands National Monument New York Olana (home of Frederic Church) Ohio Dayton Aviation Sites Ohio John Rankin House & John Parker House, Underground Railroad sites Ohio Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks Ohio Serpent Mound and Sunwatch Site Oregon Columbia River Highway Pennsylvania Eastern State Penitentiary Pennsylvania Meadowcroft Rock Shelter Pennsylvania Historic Moravian Bethlehem Rhode Island Gilded Age Newport Rhode Island Colonial Newport Texas Old Spanish Missions of San Antonio Virginia Mount Vernon Virginia Virginia State Capitol Virginia Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest |
Did You Know?
Only the top few inches of the gypsum dunes are made of loose sand. Rainwater falling on the dunes dissolves some of the gypsum and cements the sand grains together, creating a crude form of plaster of Paris. This makes the white sand dunes easy to walk on.