Big Craters

• A short, steep hike provides sweeping views of these impressive neighboring cinder cone craters.

Craters of the Moon Wilderness

• The Craters of the Moon Wilderness encompasses over 43,000 acres of land within the park and is accessible only by trail for those seeking solitude.

Craters of the Moon, the Oregon Trail

• In 1862 an emigrant party asked guide Tim Goodale to lead them west from Fort Hall on the cutoff pioneered by Jeffrey. They hoped the alternate trail would enable them to reach the Salmon River gold fields more directly. Goodale succeeded in leading a group of 1,095 people, 338 wagons, and 2,900 head of stock safely from Fort Hall to Boise. In 1863, seven out of every ten wagons en route from Fort Hall to Boise took Goodale's Cutoff instead of the main Oregon Trail.

Devils Orchard Nature Trail

• A short, wheelchair-accessible stroll through cinder beds and native vegetation.

Inferno Cone

• A steep climb up the side of a cinder cone is rewarded with magnificent 360-degree views.

Lava Trees

• Just off the Wilderness Trail, see where lava surrounded living trees to leave behind impressions of trunks and branches in the rocks.

NPS Preserve and BLM Monument

• A network of primitive roads through the park service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) portions of the preserve offers backcountry driving opportunities and access for those with high-clearance, 4-wheel-drive vehicles.

North Crater Flow Trail

• A short paved trail winds through a pahoehoe lava flow. This is an excellent introduction to the Craters of the Moon landscape.

Spatter Cones

• Peer into the vents of these miniature volcanoes, formed during the dwindling stages of eruption.

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