Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve was originally designated a national monument in 1932, then a wilderness area in 1976, and attained national park status in 2004. The national park designation included a new national preserve in the adjacent Sangre de Cristo Range.
Maps and wide views
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Park map
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Backcountry map
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Regional map
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Aerial view
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Satellite view
Dunes
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Late day shadows
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Summit of Star Dune, the park's tallest dune
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Star Dune at left and yellow aspens in the mountains
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From top of Star Dune
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Dunes and mountains
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Climber ascends High Dune, one of the park's tallest
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Windblown sand
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Sandboarding
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Dune patterns
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Dunes from valley
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Milky Way over dunes. Great Sand Dunes was designated an International Dark Sky Park in 2019.
Fauna
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Great Sand Dunes tiger beetle (Cicindela theatina)
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A female ten-lined June beetle (Polyphylla decemlineata)
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Avocet in snow
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Elk by dunes
Flora
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Blowout grass (Redfieldia flexuosa)
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Cottonwood trees
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Aspen trees
Medano Creek
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Medano Creek
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Children riding the creek's surge flow
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Full moon over dunes and the creek
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Woman in a sand wheelchair by the creek
Sangre de Cristo Range
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Lower Sand Creek Lake
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Upper Sand Creek Lake and Basin
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Aspens above the dunes
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Snow-covered dunes and Mount Herard