The Visitor Center, Gift Shop and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Along the Dunes drive, the Interdune Boardwalk is a 600-yard wheelchair-accessible trail that leads to the top of a dune. Selected picnic tables and pit toilets along the Dunes Drive are wheelchair-accessible.
Did You Know?
Because there is virtually no fresh water within the white sands dune field, animals that live in the dunes must get almost all their water solely from the food they eat. Desert animals have evolved many ways of conserving moisture. The kangaroo rat eats only dry seeds and never drinks water.