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My Colorado Thoughts

3/4/2023

 
Quotes
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen,

"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind"
--- Terry Pratchet

Not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
–  P.G. Wodehouse


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Colorado's Great Sand Dunes
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes up to 750 feet  near Alamosa, Colorado on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley,The park contains the tallest sand dunes in North America. The dunes cover an area of about 30 sq

The park contains the tallest sand dunes in North America. from the surrounding mountains filled the valley over geologic time periods.  eventually forming the dunefield over an estimated tens of thousands of years.

In October 2022 the National Park Service purchased a portion of The National Conservancy's Medano-Zapata Ranch Preserve which birders on the park. This expansion has given the park more land in addition to the dunes. The land includes springs and wetlands which support migrating birds. There is a beetle species living there that found nowhere else.

Mailing Address:Visitor Center
11999 State Highway 150

Mosca , CO 81146

One More Time
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else. --- Will Rogers



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