Great Sand Dunes to Become National Park
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From Times Wire Reports
Colorado will become home to the country’s newest national park when the Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Preserve are reclassified.
The dunes hug the bottom of the snowy Sangre de Cristo Mountains that tower over the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. The landscape changes from 8,200-foot-high grasslands, to the dunes, to 13,000-plus-foot mountains and alpine lakes -- all within four miles.
President Herbert Hoover declared the dunes a national monument in 1932.
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