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Interior of Amboy Crater showing a lava lake and the distant breach in the cinder cone rim. Interior of Amboy Crater from near breach showing lava lakes. Amboy Crater is a dormant cinder cone volcano that rises above a 70-square-kilometer (27 sq mi) lava field in the eastern Mojave Desert of southern California, within Mojave Trails National Monument.
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Amboy Crater: May 1973: San Bernardino: Federal (Bureau of Land Management) A 6,000-year-old volcanic cinder cone, made up of pahoehoe, just off historic U.S. Highway 66.
Adjacent to the south is the landmark Amboy Crater, and beyond to the southeast the Bullion Mountains. To the south is Bristol Dry Lake and the community of Cadiz, California. [citation needed] Amboy was once a major stop along the famous Route 66, but has seen much lower visitation since the opening of Interstate 40 to the north in
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Trona Pinnacles National Natural Landmark; Mitchell Caverns National Preserve; Mecca Hills National Preserve; Saddleback Butte State Park. Lake Los Angeles, California; Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve; Rainbow Basin National Natural Landmark, Barstow, California; Amboy Crater National Natural Landmark, Amboy, California; Cima volcanic ...
The world-famous Meteor Crater and Barringer Space Museum in Arizona is a stunning natural wonder, with a wealth of interesting stops along the way. Beyer's Byways: Destination Meteor Crater in ...
The Bristol Mountains are found in the Mojave Desert of California, USA, just west of Mojave National Preserve.The range, which reaches an elevation of 3,874 feet (1,181 m), is located in San Bernardino County, and crosses Interstate 40 between Ludlow and the Granite Mountains.
Mojave Trails National Monument is a large U.S. National Monument located in the state of California between Interstates 15 and 40. [1] The park was created to preserve a wide variety of geological and cultural features including several titular trails - the Old Spanish Trail, the World War II-era Desert Training Center and Route 66.