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.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amboy.
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.
Amboy Crater
- Type: Volcano
- Category: landform
- Location: San Bernardino County, Desert, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.545° or 34° 32′ 42″ northLongitude
-115.7907° or 115° 47′ 27″ westOpen location code
8566G6V5+XPOpenStreetMap ID
node 299496225OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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