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Where To Eat

The gift shop at the White Sands National Monument Visitor Center offers packaged sandwiches, snacks and drinks (open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. in summer).
The nearest restaurants are in Alamogordo (14 miles east) and Las Cruces (52 miles west).

Alamogordo restaurants.
Las Cruces restaurants.
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