Great Sand Dunes National Park

Seasonal Creek In Great Sand Dunes National Park At Near Record Low

Due to an abnormally dry winter, Medano Creek, a seasonal creek that appears in Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado every spring, is down to about ten percent of normal.

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By NPT Staff - May 27th, 2026

Explore Great Sand Dunes During A Free Smartphone Photography Workshop

Bring yourself and your smartphone to Great Sand Dunes National Park and join photographer Taz Tally for a free photo workshop to capture high-quality, memorable images with your smartphone in early October.

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August 5th, 2022

National Parks Quiz And Trivia #51

It’s time to test those national park mental muscles with Quiz and Trivia #51. Find out how much you really know about units within the National Park System.

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July 16th, 2022

National Parks Quiz And Trivia #14

It's time to test your national parks knowledge and learn a little bit of national parks trivia, too, with the latest National Parks Quiz and Trivia piece (#14). See how much you know about the nation's protected lands before checking the answers at the bottom of the piece.

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August 26th, 2020

National Parks Quiz And Trivia #11 – The Botany Edition

How much do you know about national park botany? Test your tree-plant-flower knowledge with this latest national parks quiz and trivia piece.

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June 30th, 2020

National Parks Quiz And Trivia #9

It's time to exercise your national park brain muscles again, with this Quiz and Trivia #9. See just how much you know and learn a little something at the same time.

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June 2nd, 2020

Great Sand Dunes National Park Moving Forward With Elk, Bison Management Plan

Bison will continue to roam Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado under a plan approved by the National Park Service, but initially the number within the park will shrink.

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September 18th, 2019

Traveler Special Report: Mixing Energy Development And National Parks

While the U.S. Bureau of Land Management recently deferred the auction of oil and gas leases near Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado, the issue of energy development is not dead there, nor in many other areas of the National Park System. Contributor John Miles takes a look at the state of oil and gas exploration in the park system in this article.

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July 15th, 2018

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A Year Of Exploring Our National Parks

There's never enough time to meet all the people and see all the places that make the National Park System the envy of the world, but over the past 12 months, the Traveler has "explored" quite a few parks, and we list those stories here to help you plan your next national park adventure.

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December 29th, 2017

Bison In The West: Returning Bison To The Landscape

Clattering down the plank-lined chute, the 14 bison were leaving the big city for the high plains. Penned into individual crates that were then loaded into two steel express railroad cars, they rolled west late in 1913 on a 2,000-mile journey that would prove more astonishing than it might have seemed.

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September 24th, 2017

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