Nature reserve

Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument

A striking volcanic crater from a 1,000‑year‑old eruption, with walking trails across lava fields north of Flagstaff.

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Run byNational Park Service

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Facts

Founded or opened1930

Elevation8,042 ft

Visitors per year83,669(2020)

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BoundaryNational park

Boundary: typeProtected area

Operator: shortNPS

Operator: typePublic

OwnershipNational

Protect class3

ProtectedPerpetuity

Protection titleNational Monument

From Wikipedia

Sunset Crater is a cinder cone located north of Flagstaff in the U.S. state of Arizona, the youngest in a string of volcanoes close to the nearby San Francisco Peaks. The crater is within the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument.

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Names, place details, opening times and addresses © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Facts: Wikidata (CC0).

Photo: Sunsetcrater13 by Mikesanchez1109, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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