Inaugural grants will be funneled to 21 outdoor recreation and tourism infrastructure projects across 15 counties. The post Wyoming outdoor rec board awards $1.9M in grants for trail building, ...

Rumor has it that Wyoming’s Red Desert is a beautiful and wild place, home to surreal badlands, vast sand dunes, ancient rock art and prized elk herds. But due to a lack of signage, scant online ...

Some roadside stops serve snacks. This one feels like a rescue mission with a grill, a gear wall, and a campsite attached.

The sand is the first surprise. In bright sun, it looks unusually pale for Michigan, and its soft, fine texture gives the ...

Avalanching sand from dune faces can trigger loud, rumbling 'booming' or short bursts of 'burping' sounds -- behaving as a perfectly tuned musical instrument. This sound is persistent and the dunes ...

Coos Bay, Oregon, offers a unique hiking experience with its expansive sand dunes, providing an adventurous escape without the need for an ATV. The natural beauty and challenges of the sand dunes ...

Winds blowing over a dune can move grains of sand in three main ways. What path these grains take depends on their size, although the exact size in each category can change from site to site. Think of ...

How can something that is constantly shifting stand up to 750 feet tall? This southwestern park features the largest sand dunes in North America, and the key to their extraordinary height seems to lie ...

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 ...

Discover one of America’s most biodiverse landscapes, where towering dunes, rare orchids, sandy beaches, and more than 60 ...

The size and morphology of coastal dunes is dependent on the complex interaction between controlling winds, sediment supply, and the geomorphology of the nearshore and beach environment. At the most ...

WARREN DUNES STATE PARK, Mich. (WNDU) - An air quality alert tied to Canadian wildfire smoke remains in effect for the Michiana viewing area, but the warning did not keep people away from Warren Dunes ...