My family and I went on a small day trip to the sand dunes, and it was a wonderful experience. We enjoyed both hiking up the large dunes and exploring the prairie scenery around the park. We came in February, and it was perfect temperature-wise around 70 degrees or so. I highly recommend visiting the park, as the scenery alone is wonderful.

Camped in a group campsite with tents on soft grass in the Broken Wheel Camp Area. 27 people for our Outpost Campout. The camp host and a park ranger stopped by to see if we needed an assistance or needed any firewood. Had running water and an electrical hookup, two picnic tables, a fire pit and several trees provided needed shade. June 17th and about 75 degrees. After trampling on the dunes and finding hidden ponds through the sagebrush and sand, the showers back at the campground were very refreshing. We saw jack rabbits, owls, lizards, horned-toad lizards and heard coyotes at night. Only bad thing was the wet spring brought out mosquitoes almost too much to bear.

Went last week middle of July. Very hot in the afternoon but nice in the eveing. Lots of mosquitoes in the morning near the lake when we went for a hike on the trail to the sand dunes. Saw rabbits and lizards. I enjoyed the Star event they did a very good job.