Homestead Creations

If you happen to be passing near this national park I highly recommend you make the stop. You don’t need a whole day here but it’s definitely worth more than a drive by. The visitor’s center is small but worth a quick stop for the interactive display and make sure to not miss the video tucked in the corner where you get to see what the dunes look like on a moonless night. Don’t forget your stamp in your National Park Adventure Guide. (We love this book because it comes with the stickers for each place so you technically don’t have to get the stamps. This is beneficial the times we get to a park after the visitor’s center is closed, but we still have room for the sticker AND a stamp when we want both.)

Once you drive down to the parking lot for the dunes you’ll quickly come up to a large stream you’ll need to walk through. We took our shoes and socks off to walk through even though it wasn’t deep anywhere. Water shoes would be the best option if you have them because…

Once you get on the other side of the stream but before you get to the sand dunes, the “sand” is more like tiny sharp pebbles. It was painful but our feet were wet and we hadn’t brought a towel so we tried pushing through. As you can see in the picture above, Andi was being the best big sister and carrying Rylee across the painful rocks 🙂

The rocky walk is worth it once you get to those rolling dunes that are so soft and magnificent! The kids had fun running around a bit and we all loved taking in the views.

I mean look at those dunes behind them, yet you turn around 180° and you see…

It’s just incredibly beautiful! We didn’t climb to the top of the highest dune this go around, but we hope to go back another time to do so. For this trip, we had another stop to make that day at Bishop Castle so we decided to get back on the road. This time though, we put our shoes back on to walk through the pebble terrain and then took them off to cross the water and put them back on when we got to the car. Lesson learned! 😉