indigenous communities have viewed the sand dunes as a sacred place. The park contains the tallest dunes in North America at over 750 feet tall. The rugged mountain range provides a dramatic backdrop ...

Covering more than 25 million acres — about a fourth of California — the geologically diverse California Desert Conservation Area includes sand dunes, canyons, dry lakes, 90 mountain ranges, and 65 ...

The incident occurred in late December at Eureka Dunes, the tallest sand dunes in California, the park service announced in a news release. The vehicle or vehicles “caused significant damage to ...

National Park Service officials have yet to identify the person or people who drove onto Eureka Dunes, a protected area with ...

The rolling hills of white sand overlook the ocean and offer a sense of tranquility away from the large urban areas in California. Previous visitors said driving along the dunes in a four-wheeled ...

RELATED: From woods to sand dunes: 3 spots to fat-tire bike Up North For instance, fat-tire bikers adopted the ORV area and it’s become a popular spot to cruise up and down the dunes.

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

The southwestern United States boasts several spectacular sand dunes, including the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in California's Death ... of Idaho's breathtaking mountain towns, but outdoorsy types ...

Sand Mountain blue butterflies live in only one place on Earth — within and near the dunes of “Singing” Sand Mountain in Nevada. But over the past three decades, extensive off-road vehicle use on ...