Amboy Crater National Natural Landmark
Amboy Crater National Natural Landmark is a memorial in San Bernardino County, Desert, California.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Amboy Crater and Roy’s Motel and Café.
Amboy Crater
Peak
Photo: Wilson44691, Public domain.
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.
Roy’s Motel and Café
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Roy's Motel and Café is a motel, café, gas station, and auto repair shop on the National Trails Highway, the former U.S. Route 66, in the Mojave Desert town of Amboy in San Bernardino County, California. Roy’s Motel and Café is situated 2 miles east of Amboy Crater National Natural Landmark.
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
Amboy Crater National Natural Landmark
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Ambpy Crater, formed of ash and cinders, is 250 feet high and 1500 feet in diameter. The crater is in one of the youngest volcanic fields in the United States. [...]”
- Category: historic site
- Location: San Bernardino County, Desert, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.55672° or 34° 33′ 24″ northLongitude
-115.78012° or 115° 46′ 48″ westOpen location code
8566H649+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1019299168OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Amboy Crater National Natural Landmark and Amboy Crater.
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