Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

It looks like the park ranger got a little tired of digging people out of the sand! “Point of no return” is a bit melodramatic, but aired-down four-wheel drive is required.

On a previous winter trip to Great Sand Dunes National Park in the EarthRoamer ER2K, the streams were all covered with ice and the weight of the ER2K crashed through most of the ice bridges. Air lockers were required to climb the slippery banks on the opposite side of the steam after crashing through the ice. We never needed our winch, but there were plenty of good size trees to throw a strap around if winching had been necessary. It was fun, but winter is definitely not the time to take the family grocery-getter on the Medano Pass Primitive Road.

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