The 54-mile complex of sand dunes covers roughly 40,000 acres, making it the largest dune system on the West Coast of North America. The otherworldly sight was the inspiration for the science fiction classic “Dune.”
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34. Newberry Volcano
Several volcanic attractions – lava tubes, an obsidian flow, large calderas – converge at the Newberry Volcano, once a mountain peak that collapsed in a catastrophic eruption.
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