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One of the most famous landmarks of the region, featuring sand dunes atypical even of the mostly desert Permian Basin. It offers camping, hiking, picnic grounds, and has a small museum and shop offering rentals of "sandboards" that can be used to ride down the sand dunes.
Monahans Sandhills State Park is a 3,840-acre (1,550 ha) state park located in the southern Llano Estacado in Ward County and Winkler County, Texas, United States. The closest major town is Monahans, Texas. The park opened in 1957 and is managed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
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an open air concrete tank. The tank was built by Shell Oil to contain up to a million barrels of oil. When this was found to be inefficient it was abandoned, and it is now used as a recreational ground for public events. It also features the Holman House museum, originally in downtown Monahans, with an impressive exhibit of early 20th-century household furniture and artifacts.