Amboy Crater
Amboy Crater is a dormant cinder cone volcano that rises above a 70-square-kilometer lava field in the eastern Mojave Desert of southern California, within Mojave Trails National Monument.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amboy and Bagdad.
Amboy
Photo: XRay, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Amboy is a ghost town along Route 66 in the Mojave Desert region of Southern California. Nearby is Amboy Crater, a popular tourist attraction since the Route 66 days, a 6,000-year-old cinder cone volcano and one of the youngest volcanic fields in the U.S.
Bagdad
Locality
Bagdad is a ghost town in the Mojave Desert, in San Bernardino County, California. Bagdad is situated 6 miles northwest of Amboy Crater.
Amboy Crater
- Type: Crater
- Description: extinct volcano in the Mojave Desert of California, United States
- Categories: mountain, cinder cone, and landform
- Location: San Bernardino County, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ladin—“Amboy Crater” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Amboy Crater”
- Dutch: “Amboy Crater”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل امبوى كراتير”
- Ladin: “Amboy Crater”
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