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Jul 2, 2019 · White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is an active military site. Much of the site is closed to the public because it is within the missile impact zone. Open houses only occur twice per year, on the first Saturday of April and October.
- Home (North Texas) to Whites City, NM ( 454 miles, about 7 hour. Destination is in a different time zone.) Place Visited: Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
- Whites City, NM to Alamogordo, NM (166 miles, about 3 hour.) Places Visited: Carlsbad Caverns NP in the morning and did Natural Entrance Self-Guided Trail.
- Alamogordo, NM to Tucson, AZ (349 miles, about 5 hours. Destination is in a different time zone.) Places Visited: White Sands National Park for more fun.
- Tucson, AZ to Holbrook, AZ (237 miles, about 4.5 hours.) Place Visited: Petrified Forest National Park. A place to see petrified wood from sizes as tiny as your fingernail to as big as an old Elm tree.
Jul 8, 2024 · Go hiking in Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains, explore the underground wonderland of Carlsbad Caverns, and sled on dunes as white as snow at White Sands National Park. This road trip is done as a loop from El Paso, Texas.
Jul 2, 2019 · Texas Road Trip Itinerary: San Antonio to El Paso via Big Bend & White Sands. Big Bend National Park is in a remote pocket of southwest Texas right on the Mexico border, seven hours from San Antonio and about six hours from El Paso. If you want to go, you’ve got to drive.
Sep 30, 2024 · Hiking and driving on sand, seeing endless dunes of sand, sand sledding down dunes, and taking beautiful photos of the white sand make it worth the trip. What city is closest to White Sands National Park?
Trinity Site is located on the White Sands Missle Range and is only open 2 times a year to the general public. There is an obelisk at ground zero along with historical pictures around the fence. Shuttle busses take you to the Mcdonald ranch house where Oppenheimer and other observers watched the test.
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Jan 15, 2023 · White Sands National Park is one of the National Park Service’s hidden gems. Nestled within the Tularosa Basin of the Chihuahuan Desert in Southern New Mexico, the dramatic white sand dunes made of gypsum spans across 140,000+ acres and attracts visitors from all over the world.
