White Sands is a national park in southern New Mexico comprising a massive pocket ... What’s inside matters. Most beach sands contain quartz, but these sands consist of gypsum.

In partnership with the Department of Defense, White Sands Missile Range has successfully taken action to preserve 60,000 acres of the Chupadera Mesa, ...

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. — People living in a New Mexico White Sands Manufactured Home and RV Community are back to square one. New Mexico Gas Company shut down access to natural gas this week after ...

The State Land Office announced last week that Chupadera Mesa would be conserved with a Land Use Restriction or Condition.

WHITE SANDS, N.M. (KRQE) – We are getting a look at how many people visited on of New Mexico’s most photographed national parks last month. In December, more than 62,200 people visited the ...

The entire dune field is a massive 275 square miles (by comparison, the second-largest gypsum dune field in the world, Cuatro Ciénegas in Mexico, is only 8 square miles). Hiking and sledding over this ...

About 60,000 acres of state-owned land near White Sands will be protected from future development thanks to an agreement between the New Mexico Land Conservancy, the State Land Office and the U.S ...