1. Lydia
Language arts
6th grade
3rd hour
The Great Sand Dunes National Park
Have you ever heard of a sand dune? Well I’m going to tell you about the biggest
sand dunes ever! There called the Great Sand Dunes. They are located in
Mosca,Colorado. The National park is 35 miles northeast of Alamosa. Here’s
something interesting about the Great Sand Dunes; People think the Dunes are
haunted it’s the 6th most haunted hiking places and National park. If you like
Paranormal activity then you will like to go to the Great Sand Dunes. Visitors say
they see and feel ghosts or weird objects. Lots of people died in the Dunes. Most
suffocated or inhaled to much sand. People say they were pushed, got knocked out
and then Inhale to much sand and died. Who would push them?
Now To The Amazing History of The Great Sand Dunes National Park. Did you
know The Great Sand Dunes National Park is the youngest one made so far. It was
preserved from 2000 to 2004. Then people could visit and look at the beautiful
scenery in September 2004. Scientist say that they started forming 440,000 years
ago and is 12,000 years old. They say they have evidence of people around the area
of the Sand Dunes back around 11,000 years ago. Wow! The first people who lived
near the Sand Dunes were nomadic hunters and gatherers. The Hunters hunted
mammoths and prehistoric bison.
If your wondering how long these sand dunes good your not going to be wondering
any more. The Highest Elevation is 13,604 feet at Tijeras peak. The lowest part is
7,520 feet near San Luis Lake. It covers between 84,670 acres to 107,000 acres.
Covers fifty-five square miles and rising to height's of nearly seven hundred feet.
They say the Great Sand Dunes are the largest Sand Dunes in the United States.
Now to the fun stuff. Heres some fun things you can do at this wonderful national
park. You can roll or slide down a dunes, swim in Medano Creek, Hike in the
Mountains, And earn a Junior Ranger badge. Also The Kids and go on a field trip
with their class or with the family; you can have a picnic, go camping, and go see the
exhibits. There are thousands of animals so you can go bird watching. Other animals
you can see are amphibians, fish, Insects, Mammals and reptiles. Here’s something
weird people snowboard down sand dunes so their sand boarding. Did you know
there’s such thing as dune wheelchairs? Weird right.
Here is all the information in a summary. The Great Sand Dunes National Park is

2. haunted. It has very interesting history and A lot of things to do. It has Millions of
things to do and can be your next family vacation.