• View of the Great Rift

    Craters Of The Moon

    National Monument & Preserve Idaho

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  • All roads and facilities are open

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

Stop 4 - Inferno Cone

Inferno Cone

Inferno Cone

Take in the view from the overlook or climb
the cinder path to the top of the cone
(a short, steep 0.5 milewalk).
Either way the views are magnificent.

Trailhead Sign (pdf)

Did You Know?

potato

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!