You'll feel like you're walking though Hawaii's national park when you tackle this short trail at Craters of the Moon in ...

ARCO • Idaho is the only state in the West that doesn’t have a national park solely within its borders. That could change if a proposal to convert Craters of the Moon gets legs. The idea has ...

Though many believe it deserves national park status, this volcanic landscape in Idaho is "just" a national monument and preserve - for now ...

I want to call on our Idaho Congressional delegation to make Craters of the Moon the 64th National Park in the United States. National Parks are created through Congressional Action with four ...

The landscape is stark, dark and dramatic, formed by a series of eruptions in the last 16,000 years that have stacked layer ...

Note: This is the fourth in a series of six Guest Opinions commemorating the Craters of the Moon National Monument Centennial. While southern Idaho’s vast Snake River Plain is lauded and ...

This rugged landscape features cinder cones, spatter cones and lava tube caves formed from volcanic activity in the Great Rift, a series of cracks in the Earth that runs over a stretch of 52 miles. In ...

Sixty different historic lava flows punctuate Craters of the Moon National Monument, which was expanded in 2000 to a size approaching that of Rhode Island. ARCO, Idaho — ...

ARCO — National Park Week begins April 21 and runs through April 29. The scenic seven-mile-loop road at Craters of the Moon National Monument — located about halfway between Arco ...

ARCO, Idaho — The National Park Service (NPS) invites members of the public to participate in three special “walks on the Moon” that will be held in May and June ...

A lava field can be seen with the Pioneer Mountains in the background on April 29, 2024, at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve near Arco. On May 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge ...

Craters of the Moon is a "lunar-like" landscape home to cinder cones, fissures, lava tubes, and other volcanic features. The park is designated as an International Dark Sky Park making the park ...