By Seth Boster
From The Gazette
Colorado Springs—It’s about time to chart a course to southern Colorado, where an unusual phenomenon occurs only this time of year across one of the state’s most unusual landscapes.
As snow melts from the mountains, Medano Creek has started its annual rise at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. As April turned to May, the park reported “a gentle, shallow flow” at the foot of the dune field, with water reaching depths of 3 inches.
Flows typically increase through the month, with late May and early June being the best chances for “surges”—when kids ride waves on inflatables, parents watch from fold-out chairs, and an unlikely beach scene prevails in the San Luis Valley….