Craters of the Moon, Idaho
Butte County · Card no. 6324
A national monument on the Snake River Plain covering one of the best preserved flood basalt fields in the country, from eruptions as recent as 2,000 years ago.
- Apollo astronauts trained here in 1969 to study volcanic geology before going to the moon.
- A 1921 visitor described it as the surface of the moon, which named it.
- The Great Rift, a 52-mile crack in the earth, produced the flows.
Every incorporated city and town in Idaho has its own painted card here, free to send by email or by link. No account, nothing to install.