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White Sands National Monument
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Wheelchair
The Visitor Center, Gift Shop and restrooms are wheelchair accessible.  Along the Dunes drive, the Interdune Boardwalk is a 600-yard wheelchair-accessible trail that leads to the top of a dune.  Selected picnic tables and pit toilets along the Dunes Drive are wheelchair-accessible.
Photo of sand avalanching  

Did You Know?
While the wind piles the sand grains into dunes, the dunes move forward under the force of gravity. As the leading edge of the dune ("slipface") gets steeper, gravity pulls an avalanche of sand down the slipface, moving the dune forward.

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Last Updated: July 25, 2006 at 00:23 EST