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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 animal tracks  

Did You Know?
Most desert animals are nocturnal, coming out to feed only at night when temperatures are cooler. Every animal in the white sands makes tracks on the dunes as it moves, leaving clues to its nocturnal activities.

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