welcome to white sands national park
we just entered in new mexico and we are exploring
our 27th national park today we're so excited to be here just like any other national park
this is one that needs to be checked out the list and we are finally here it is the end of
february as we're exploring this national park we're going gonna be checking out the
dunes seeing all the sights and can't wait to spend a day here in new mexico so follow
along as i share with you some of the best highlights here at white sands national park
white sands national park covers just over 145,000 acres in the Tularosa basin
the white sand is actually composed of a gypsum crystal and it's the largest gypsum
doom field in the world so we decided to wear flip-flops today we didn't want our regular
shoes to get all sandy so that's what we're rolling with right now so walking on the sand
i thought it was going to be really difficult because you know when you're walking on like
really soft sandy beaches it's like you're digging in the sand it's kind of a workout
it's kind of it's nice and hard but it's like soft at the same time when you pick
it up to feel it it's super soft but walking on it is super hard and not hard to walk on
this is such soft sand it's like
powder thankful there's no wind today because it was windy i think this would be messy
so new mexico is kind of the start of the white sands and it goes all the way down into mexico
all right it's lunch time practically because we really wanted to have a lunch here in the
park and they have the coolest picnic areas it's the primrose picnic area and
they just have all these little picnic tables with the covers all over here so
there's some over there so we're just nestled in the sand with our picnic area there it is
how fun we are making some ham sandwiches there's lunch in the white sands national park let's eat
so we just came from tucson arizona we spent three days there i did an entire vlog on some
of the things we did there so just in case you're watching this vlog and you're on your
way to tucson if you're interested in some of the sights definitely go check out that vlog
too the park road is only seven and a half miles long from the entrance and about halfway it turns
from tar to sand so it's quite short and doesn't take too long to get to the end but there's tons
of great pull-offs along the way and the deeper you get into the park the taller the dunes get
what do you think of the white sands it's a lot of sand
no it's cool it's beautiful it is it's huge really beautiful so much sand this is so pretty
you got the backdrop of the mountains just surrounding the dunes wow
so i highly recommend the flip flops if you come here we had a lot of people comment saying they
wish they would have brought their flip-flops and of course we weren't sure right away flip-flops
were the perfect thing to wear because we weren't sure if there was gonna be like you know spurs or
something in the sand or critters or you know things which there can be i'm not saying it's
not possible but um yeah these have been awesome it's been really nice to just have flip-flops on
now i don't have sandy shoes and you can walk barefoot all right you guys well that was a nice
little quick trip here at the white sands national park in new mexico so if you're in the southern
part of new mexico i highly recommend stoping here because this is absolutely just gorgeous
such a white sand you got the mountain backdrops so fun to just walk on the dunes and have a little
picnic while you're here so thank you guys so much for watching we'll see you guys in the next vlog