{"id":23536,"date":"2019-05-12T11:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T17:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=365841"},"modified":"2019-05-12T11:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T17:09:52","slug":"the-darkness-at-great-sand-dunes-national-park-now-internationally-recognized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/the-darkness-at-great-sand-dunes-national-park-now-internationally-recognized\/","title":{"rendered":"The darkness at Great Sand Dunes National Park now internationally recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/GreatSandDunes.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/GreatSandDunes.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/GreatSandDunes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/GreatSandDunes-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\"><figcaption><strong>Milky Way over Great Sand Dunes<\/strong><br \/><em>Patrick Myers \/ National Park Service<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A southern Colorado destination for star gazers for decades, the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve has been recognized as an International Dark Sky Park.Check out our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theknow.denverpost.com\/2019\/04\/10\/great-sand-dunes-itinerary\/212789\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">48-hour guide<\/a>&nbsp;to Great Sand Dunes National Park<\/p>\n<p>Great Sand Dunes joins three other national park&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theknow.denverpost.com\/2019\/04\/22\/dinosaur-national-monument-darkness\/213715\/\">sites in Colorado<\/a>&nbsp;and about two dozen national parks around the country in being designated International Dark Sky Parks, the National Park Service said in a Thursday news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s no surprise that Great Sand Dunes has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/10\/29\/international-dark-sky-association-designations-national-parks-fighting-light-pollution\/\">building a reputation for good night sky viewing<\/a>,\u201d said Pamela Rice, park superintendent, in the release. \u201cThe dry air, high elevation, and lack of light pollution all make the park an ideal dark-sky destination. We are thrilled with receiving this recognition as an International Dark Sky Park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The designation, by the International Dark-Sky Association, recognizes the park, northeast of Alamosa, for its efforts and commitments to preserving \u201cthe exceptional quality of its dark night skies,\u201d the release stated.<\/p>\n<p><em>To read the full story on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\">The Denver Post website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/theknow.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/09\/great-sand-dunes-dark-sky-park\/214974\/\">click here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/the-darkness-at-great-sand-dunes-national-park-now-internationally-recognized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milky Way over Great Sand DunesPatrick Myers \/ National Park Service A southern Colorado destination for star gazers for decades, the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve has been recognized as an International Dark Sky Park.Check out our&nbsp;48-hour guide&nbsp;to Great Sand Dunes National Park Great Sand Dunes joins three other national park&nbsp;sites in Colorado&nbsp;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 20:39:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}