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Park with seventy-foot-high sand dunes opens to public
On this day in 1957, Monahans Sandhills State Park officially opened. It
is located on Park Road 41 near Interstate Highway 20 in northeast Ward
and southeast Winkler counties, six miles northeast of Monahans. It
comprises 3,840 acres of sand dunes that are a part of a dune field
stretching north into New Mexico. The Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department operates the park. It has a visitor and interpretive center,
as well as camping, equestrian, and recreation facilities.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- MONAHANS SANDHILLS STATE HISTORIC PARK
- WARD COUNTY
- WINKLER COUNTY
- MONAHANS, TX
- TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT
- Links to other Web sites (will be opened in new browser window)
- Texas Parks and Wildlife--Monahans Sandhills State Park
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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- Self-styled Baron de Bastrop born in Dutch Guiana (1759)
- Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art opens in Fort Worth (1982)
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