In the middle of nowhere are North America’s tallest sand dunes. In the picture at the top the dunes don’t look so big. But (right) when you’re on them, the dunes are daunting!
The dunes there are 100 feet high. The dunes here crest at 750 feet. The Sangre De Cristo Mountains are in the background. The range’s highest elevation is 14,351 feet. These mountains are part of the great Rocky Mountains.
Alesia did a great job mapping out this adventurous trip. After two nights in Colorado Springs (see my Fort Carson, Garden of the Gods and Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site posts). we drove 160 miles to this out-of-the-way National Park. The remote route made for an interesting and scenic drive that I will document in a later post.
We had a surprise upon entering this “wilderness.”
You must walk through water before you climb the sand dunes. Seasonally the water can be so high you have to wade or swim through it.
On this day, we just had to take off our shoes…