The Pyramid Point Trail is a 2.6 mile loop that passes through the remnants of 19th-century farms. The view is epic, but the ...

I didn’t unpack the aircraft until we got out there and set up camp under the stars in the valleys between the dunes. Lake water percolates through the sand, so you can drink freshwater out of ...

The highest peak of Pyramid Point is 957 feet above Lake Michigan in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. You’d have ...

Sand grains that are very round and dry (moisture on the dune's surface can cause sand to clump together, inhibiting avalanching) Grains on the dune's surface that are "well sorted," meaning they ...

Vodry was taken to a local hospital but later died. It comes just a few months after Vodry nearly died in a crash at Silver Lake Sand Dunes. Vodry worked at Kaz Transmissions in Plainfield ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

How can something that is constantly shifting stand up to 750 feet tall? This southwestern park features the largest sand dunes in North America, and the key to their extraordinary height seems to lie ...

The Keiser sons first created Sand Valley in the rural center of Wisconsin, hardly a place anyone would have considered ...

Kayaks and stand-up-paddleboarding are two great ways to experience Lake Michigan and get a unique perspective on the dunes from the water. Hiking without getting covered in sand is also possible.

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara ... water rushing in to fill Lake Iriqui, a famous lake bed between ...

Appearances can be deceiving. At first glance, you'd never think the rolling white sand dunes of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas held the largest stand of oak in the country. The region's ...