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Sunset Crater Volcano National Monumentthe Cinder Hills
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Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
Lenox Crater Trail
Visitor viewing distant mountains across summit of Lenox Crater

Photo by Joelle Clark

View across the summit of Lenox Crater

 

This is your opportunity to climb a cinder cone. (Sunset Crater Volcano is closed to hiking due to erosional damage.)

From the top, you can see the San Francisco Peaks, Sunset Crater and its lava flow.

 

Distance 1 mile round-trip
Time

45 minutes round-trip
Difficulty Strenuous
Accessibility Steep slopes covered with loose cinders
mock-up of lunar rover vehicle on cinder fields  

Did You Know?
In the 1960s, astronauts practiced for the first lunar landings on cinder fields in and around Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument

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Last Updated: September 14, 2006 at 19:19 EST