Craters of the Moon

We left Clayton and Stanley, Idaho and traveled to Arco, Idaho to see the Craters of the Moon. We traveled through some beautiful country to get to Arco.  I cannot believe how pretty Idaho is, especially the northern part.  The southern part is also pretty but they have a lot of potato fields around.  Arco is not a very big town with only two restaurants, one Mexican and the other was a hamburger joint.  It was good and greasy, which I needed.  Of course, we had to go to Mexican the next night and that was ok except for the human hair they put in my food.

Craters of the Moon National Park is really something to see.  There is not a lot of information or recognition for the park, but it is interesting to see and find how all that lava got to the area millions of years ago.  The stuff is everywhere and there are lava tubes that came to the surface and bust to make caves and tunnels.  The park is huge and there is not much growing around there.  The park has done some work to make it visitor friendly and there are paths that you walk around on to see some of the more interesting things.  Little known fact is that 1/3 of Idaho is a lava bed from millions of years ago.

Back in 69,  Astronauts came here to train for the Moon Mission for NASA.  There is not much information on how they trained or what they did here to get ready, but the brochures make mention of it.

They have a nice visitors center and a campground at the entrance.  We met one of the Rangers at the park and she had a Georgia connection.  She attended “UGA to get her PHD.  We talked for a while and she gave us a lot of information of places to go and see on the rest of our trip.  Here is the photos of the lava.




















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