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Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Utah

A short walk from the boardwalk out onto the dunes: how a mountain gap built the only big dune field on the Colorado Plateau, why the sand is pink, a beetle found nowhere else on Earth, a rare milkweed and the dunes in the movies.

5 min of audio · 1 miles · Read the transcript

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    Facts from Utah State Parks (Coral Pink Sand Dunes), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Federal Register (tiger beetle, Welsh's milkweed), KUER (2026), Visit Utah and KSL (film history), DesertUSA, and published guides. Trail geometry © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Music: Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade (III), San Francisco Symphony conducted by Pierre Monteux, 1942 (CC0, Wikimedia Commons). Narration is AI-generated. Not an official Utah State Parks product. Cover: “Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park” by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0.