The town of Alamogordo is a perfect location for visiting Alamogordo White Sands National Park. We enjoyed several nights at the Alamogordo White Sands KOA campground, which allowed us plenty of time to see this natural wonder. Alamogordo White Sands National Park covers 275 square miles of the Chihuahuan Desert. The largest gypsum field in the world, it is the remains of the Permian Sea, which dried up millions of years ago. In 1933 President Herbert Hoover proclaimed this to be a national monument. The dune fields just outside the monument were used as weapons testing sites. In fact, White Sands Missile Range still regularly conducts missile tests here, so before you go check the National Park Service website to determine if the highway and park are open. Testing is done for a couple of hours about two days a week, and the times are posted online. In 1945, during …