Meteor Crater

We stayed at the Meteor Crater RV Park between Flagstaff and Winslow to check out the big hole in the ground!  It is said to be the best preserved meteorite impact site on earth.  This crater was created 50,000 years ago.  It struck the earth with an explosive force greater than twenty million tons of TNT.
The meteor's impact left a giant bowl-shaped crater nearly a mile across and more than 500 feet deep.
The Visitor/Interactive Discovery Center is located at the crater rim and has inside as well as outside viewing areas. Inside there are many displays and exhibits about Meteor Crater.



This is the largest discovered fragment of the 150 foot meteor that created Meteor Crater.

 

A closer look.....

This is one of the outside viewing areas.  You can see another platform far below where Alan is standing.  Some of the viewing areas were up high and some were down low.  In other words..... a lot of walking up and down!

 

This platform actually hung out over the crater. 

This is one side of the crater.......

This is the other side of the crater.   You can see how far down the viewing area is.

 

This is the center of the crater.  It's hard to tell that it is 500' deep.  There are a few things on the bottom that you can only see if you use one of the telescopes on the viewing area.

Alan took this picture with our camera through one of their telescope lens.   It is a rock located on the far side of the crater that is the size of a house. 

This is a picture of an aerial

 view of the crater. 

These petrified tree trunks were scattered around the grounds.  They had turned to stone.  The Petrified Forest was not too far away. 

After we left and got down the road a few miles, we looked back and because the land is so flat, you can see the rim of the crater.

Winslow, AZ:

Well......since we were only a few miles from Winslow, AZ  we had to go see the "corner"......

When the song "Take it Easy" by the Eagles became a hit, people came to the town looking for the "corner in Winslow, Arizona" as in the song.  The town decided to dedicate a corner and it has become a really big tourist attraction.  They also had an artist paint the reflection of a girl in a flatbed ford.

We just had to do it!

You can really see all the details in this picture.  All the reflections in the windows are painted in.  Notice the couple in the upper window.

The store on the other side of the corner had this sign above the door.  They sold "Route 66" and "Take it Easy"  souvenirs.

In fact, the other corners were also cashing in on this now famous "corner in Winslow, Arizona". 

 

 

 

 

 

There were people before, during and after us taking pictures.