The only place that's come close to White Sands National Park, in my opinion, is the Province Lands dunes in Provincetown.

Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, to the Algodones Dunes , a sandy field bordering California, Arizona and Mexico. The day was sunny, with a strong breeze.

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, ...

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