The International Herald Tribune has an excellent article about meteor impact sites and other natural holes around Arizona, including the big Meteor Crater off Route 66 east of Flagstaff.
Some interesting facts about Meteor Crater:
- If a football game were played at the bottom, the crater’s walls would hold 2 million spectators.
- The 4,100-foot-wide crater was created by a meteor only 150 feet wide.
- Scenes from the 1984 movie “Starman,” starring Karen Allen and Jeff Bridges, were filmed there.
- The crater once was mistakenly thought to be a dormant volcano.