White Sands National Park

White Sands National Park

Welcome to living in El Paso, Texas. My name is John Peña. Won't you come with us to White Sands, New Mexico. All right, hey everybody. Thank you so much for tuning into the channel. My name is John Peña. I'm a real estate agent here in El Paso, Texas and what you are

looking at is a map of New Mexico, Texas and Mexico. Everything north of the orange line is New Mexico. We are going to White Sands Missile Range slash White Sands National Park. Epic place. It is about 100 miles from El Paso and it will take you about an hour and a half to get there. With that, let's go ahead and I'm

going to go ahead and share some info with you. Okay, so White Sands is cool. We've been here a couple of times and it's an interesting place and it changes depending on the weather that you catch it in. You know, there was a chance like if I would have gone today, today was

pretty hot and actually kind of humid with all the rain and it would have been pretty warm there. If the sun is out, you know, July, August, you know, you're gonna definitely maybe get cooked. The cool thing is that it's this gypsum sand. I think they make drywall out of it. I'm not sure on that, but you know, you can

walk on it with bare feet and the sand doesn't hold heat, so that's pretty awesome. So I'm going to share some information with you so that you have, you know, a little bit more of the facts and here we go. White Sands is essentially rises out of the heart of the Tularosa Basin. This is

one of the world's greatest natural wonders and this is located in New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert creating the world's largest gypsum dune field. So White Sands National Park essentially preserves a major portion of this unique dune field

along with the plants and the animals that live there. So we had a pretty good time here. Obviously we're kind of playing with the drone, but you can see the sand right there, all the green vegetation because of all the recent rain. So we picked, as you're gonna see here in the future, we

picked a day where it actually kind of ended up that there was a storm that rolled in and it all pretty much chased us away. We did get some rain later, but nothing too scary. But so like I said, it really does depend on the weather that you catch it in. But a little history here. So over 10,000 years ago the

first people came to White Sands National Park in search of food, water, and shelter. In more recent times, Spanish explorers and miners came to the basin in pursuit of salt, gypsum, and other resources. Ranchers also took advantage of the expansive grasslands in the basin until the bombing of

Pearl Harbor during World War II, which caused the US military to see the value of using the basin for scientific research and technological development. Okay, so let's talk about some of the awesome things that you can do out here. I mean it really is pretty cool. Only an hour and a half away, you know, depending

on the weather, depending on the season, you're gonna get all sorts of different experiences. And so one thing you can do is you can do sunset strolls. If you want to do the more leisurely one-hour ranger guided walk across the sand dunes, they'll teach you about the geology, the plants, the animals. So that's offered

every Friday, Saturday, Sunday except for Christmas. And it's approximately one hour before sunset. That's actually what we were going to try to do. We were trying to capture sunset and I think it would have been pretty epic with the clouds and everything. But then this storm rolled in so that changed, chased

us away. Okay, so they also do things with full moons. I imagine when the full moon is out and it's a clear night reflecting off the sand, I bet it's pretty pretty awesome. They also do, in that same sort of vein, meteor shower. So you know stargazing, all of that out here is gonna be pretty awesome. They have a

mothapalooza, home to more than 40 unique endemic species of moths. So that sounds like something kind of scientific and awesome. This is a spectacular demonstration of speed at my age. Really impressive. So even though we got chased away by the rain, we still had a great time. I think

it's a really fantastic place. I believe if you get the proper permits and pay the fees, you can actually come in early, stay late, and I think you can even do backcountry camping according to the website, which would be, I think, really cool out here. So a fantastic place. Great option for something to do in any time

of the year, quite honestly. If you're in El Paso, an hour and a half away, can't beat it. Thank you guys so much for checking out the channel. If you're finding this information useful, by all means, please consider reaching out to us. We'd love to talk to you and make a connection. Alright, thank you so much.

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