On a cross-country flight years ago I was scanning the landscape below and saw some incredible sand dunes. Later locating the dunes later on a map as being near Alamosa, Colorado, this trip got stuffed away on the bucket list.
I finally got to Alamosa, the San Luis Valley & Great Sand Dunes National Park this summer.
The San Luis Valley was settled by Mexican pioneers early in the 1800s, then was added to the U.S. as part of the Treaty of Hidalgo. The valley is very high, between 7500 and 8000 feet, which makes the adjacent Sangre de Cristo ("Blood of Christ") mountains very high, between 12,000 and almost 14,000 feet.
Northern part of Sangre de Cristo range:
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