White Sands Trading Company — Local services in Alamogordo

Bring your own sand sleds! Lest you want to pay $26 for a plastic disk you can get for $8 bucks somewhere else.

Typical overpriced gift shop. Sure there are cool trinkets to look at, but $13 magnets, $20 medallions, $26 sleds? I've been to many gift shops. I can understand gift shops charging a bit more especially if they are the only gift shop around, but the prices here just seem way too high.

My biggest gripe was that the penny press machine charged me $4 dollars for 4x pennies with off centered designs. The clerk got the "manager" for me who pretty much refused to offer any way to make it right. First suggesting that I did not line up the design correctly myself... I am a collector, I know how to operate the machine. I asked for my $4 back for the defective products to which the "manager" said there is "no way she can pull money back from the machine" and that they "do not own the machine." Yea, I don't believe that. The profits of the machine should be going to the gift shop as it is a passive income source for the shop. You are charging customers $26 for a $8 piece of plastic and $13 dollars for a $2 magnet, and you cant refund a customer $4 for a defective product? Unbelievable. Avoid this...

The ladies working the counter are amazing and super friendly! They did change the sled prices to $15 and you would get $10 back if you returned by 4 PM. For improvements, I wish there was an easier way to return the sleds. You would basically have to exit the entire park to return it, which would be a lot of work for $10, especially if you came in the afternoon. I was a tourist who was new to the area, so I decided to just eat the $10 because I really wanted to do the sunset stroll at 4 PM and didn't want to exit the park. Other than that, I would say that the price is pretty fair and my sled...

The park and sand is beautiful we got a blue sled and no wax it didn’t work well at all. Some friends of ours went earlier in the day and they got one of the wooden boards that you sit and with wax they had a lot more success than us. Once we got a track established the kids were able to sled down but not fast by any means. My husband and I were not able to sled down at all with the blue one. At the very least get a wooden sled. I wish the people at the desk would have...