Closed Dunes

Sand Dunes that we have already lost (closed to OHV access):

• Black Sands Beach, CA

• Blow Sand Mountain, NV (link for Google Maps) - Naval bombing range - NAS Fallon

• Bruneau Dunes State Park - Tallest single-structured sand dune in North America

• Cadiz Dunes, CA

• Chuckwalla Valley Dune Thicket

• Death Valley Dunes (aka Stovepipe Wells Dunes)

• Eureka Dunes, CA - Death Valley NP

• Ford Dry Lake and Dunes

• Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, Alaska

• Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve - Tallest Sand Dunes in North America

• Guadalupe, CA

• Humboldt Dunes - Ma-le'l Dunes, Manilla Dunes & Eureka Dunes

• Hunt River Sand Dunes, Alaska

• Ibex Dunes, CA - Death Valley NP

• Juniper Dunes Wilderness Area, WA

• Kelso Dunes, CA

• Little Kobuk Sand Dunes, Alaska

• Los Medanos

• Marina Dunes, CA

• Monahans Sandhills State Park 

• Morro Bay Sand Spit

• North Algodones, CA

• Oceano Dunes, CA - Majority of once open area now closed

• Panamint Dunes, CA - Death Valley NP

• Pinto Dunes - in Joshua Tree?

• Rice Valley Dunes, CA

• Saline Dunes, CA - Death Valley NP

• Sand Hills, Nebraska

• Thousand Palms Dunes (aka Coachella dunes)

• Tolowa Dunes, CA

• White Sands National Monument, NM

• Whitewater Dunes - Windy Point, CA

You can also fly around these dunes using the place marks that DuneGuide.com has developed for Google Earth:

U.S. Dunes Closed to OHVs - Google Earth kmz file download (more info on Google Earth)

Many of the dunes listed above lie within the General Patton's WWII Desert Training Center, California-Arizona Maneuver Area. The thought that off-road vehicles are causing such irreparable harm to the environment is simply ridiculous.

 Read more here: The myth of the "fragile desert", by Don Fife

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