Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona

Ever since Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen made the movie Star Man, I have wanted to see meteor crater near Winslow, Arizona. The rain held off just long enough for us to get there today. The crater is nearly a mile across and more than 550 feet deep. 50,000 years ago a meteor ended its 500 million year long race through space in a collision at this site. This is the first proven and best preserved impact site on earth. Here is a view looking at the center of the crater,

then towards the left

then towards the right, it was too big to get all at once!

As you leave I-40 and turn onto to road leading to the crater, you an see that the land is rising. The meteor pushed up the land around as it hit and created this enormous crater. 20 football fields would fit in the bottom of the crater! The terrain resembles that of the moon and was a training site for NASA astronauts. You can walk around the rim but you can't walk down into the crater.

What a fabulous site!