White Sands is newest National Park

[NW-Bound]

White Sands is now the 62nd National Park. Its designation change to a national park from a national monument was legislated in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020.

One may ask what this has to do with the National Defense budget. I think it is quite often that something is piggybacked on to a piece of unrelated legislation for expediency. It's a weird custom, but that's how the US works.


See: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/ne...ted-as-the-newest-us-national-park/ar-BBYhvgg

 

[NW-Bound]

If you go to White Sands, be sure to allow time to visit the nearby White Sands Range Missile Museum. Admission is free. I spent a couple of hours there.

 

[DrRoy]

We're going to visit there this year.

 

[dtbach]

I was on a couple of test teams for Navy missile development in the early 90's and went there several times a year for test launches. Fascinating place.