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white sands national monument

White Sands National Monument landscape featuring rolling white sand dunes and a red camping tent under a clear blue sky.

White Sands National Monument

Exploring the Southwest comes with an abundance of places to explore. New Mexico is no different and one only needs to look at a map, and there south of Albuquerque is the White Sands National Monument. I drove in from the south, via an east to the west corridor through the top side of the Lincoln National Forest.