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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
Paricutin volcano erupting  

Did You Know?
When Paricutin erupted in Michoacan, Mexico in 1943, scientists flocked to the site. Observations and studies there have helped to explain the eruption of Sunset Crater Volcano in Arizona 900 years earlier.

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