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Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve
Stop 4 - Inferno Cone

From atop this cone (a short, steep 0.5-mile walk) you see cinder cones lined up along the Great Rift. Big Cinder Butte, towering above the lava plain to the south, is one of world's largest basaltic cinder cones.

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Did You Know?
Vast quantities of water stored by the lava rock aquifer below the Eastern Snake River Plain provides for critical human needs throughout southern Idaho...including those famous potatoes!

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Last Updated: September 07, 2007 at 13:20 EST