Amboy Crater Trail

Amboy Crater Trail is a trailhead in San Bernardino County, Desert, California. Amboy Crater Trail is situated nearby to Amboy Crater National Natural Landmark.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Amboy Crater and Roy’s Motel and Café.

Amboy Crater

Peak

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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 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 Trail.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Amboy and Bagdad.

Amboy

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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.