• View of the Great Rift

    Craters Of The Moon

    National Monument & Preserve Idaho

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    The Visitor Center is open daily from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Obtain a permit before entering any authorized cave.

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  • Visitors in Indian Tunnel
    Caves
    6 Photos
  • Portrait of explorer and park founder Robert Limbert.
    History
    14 Photos
  • lava river
    Lava
    17 Photos
  • Entrance sign
    Park Structures
    3 Photos
  • Clarks Nutcracker
    Wildlife
    9 Photos
  • view from the top of Big Cinder Butte cinder cone
    Scenics
    30 Photos
  • limber pine snag
    Plants
    22 Photos
  • visitors on a guided cave walk
    People
    10 Photos

 
 

More photos
These resource photo albums provide a glimpse into Craters of the Moon's critical resources and National Park Service efforts to inventory, monitor, and preserve them.

 
 
 
 
 

Short films about park activities and resources:

Loop Tour

Winter

SnowSchool

Star Party

Pika Monitoring

 

Geological Animations (Developed by BLM staff and the University of California at Santa Barbara)

  • Eruptive Periods along the Great Rift
    Shows the evolution of the Craters of the Moon lava fields over the last 15,000 years.
  • Great Rift
    Shows a close-up view of the Great Rift and possible mechanisms by which features visible today on the surface were created.
  • Tree Molds
    Illustration of the process by which the imprint of charred trunks remains after contact with lava.
  • Rafted Blocks
    Shows the transport of large chunks of a cinder cone by lava flows.

 

A Trip to the Moon
Website for the Idaho Public Television special on Craters of the Moon

 
Interview with Doug Neighbor, Superintendent of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve (Part of the Boise State Radio series "New Horizons in Education")
 
Interview with Robert Limbert historian and film maker, Steve Wursta (Part of the Boise State radio series "New Horizons in Education")

Did You Know?

wilderness

In 1970 Craters of the Moon became one of the first areas in the National Park System to be designated as a federal Wilderness area. Craters of the Moon contains vast areas where visitors have an opportunity to experience the earth as it was.