• View of the Great Rift

    Craters Of The Moon

    National Monument & Preserve Idaho

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Stop 6 - Tree Molds and Broken Top Loop

Big Cinder Butte

View of Big Cinder Butte from Tree Molds parking area

A spur road just past Inferno Cone leads to this trailhead. View the imprint of lava-charred trees alond the Tree Molds Trail (2 miles). Broken-Top Loop Trail (self-guiding trail brochure pdf) circumnavigates a cinder cone (1.8 miles). The Wilderness Trail leads to molds of upright trees called lava trees (4 miles) and the vast wilderness area beyond.

 Tree Molds Trailhead Sign (pdf)

Broken Top Loop 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!