Bruce Cooper shot this video of Amboy Crater, off Route 66 near Amboy, Calif. Choncey Langford composed the atmospheric music.
The Amboy Crater from Bruce Cooper on Vimeo.
Cooper wrote this about the natural landmark:
The scenic and solitary Amboy Crater was a popular sight and stop for travelers on U.S. Route 66 in California before the opening of Interstate 40 in 1973. Other than a stretch of U.S. Route 66 in New Mexico, Amboy Crater was one of few extinct volcanoes along the entire route, so generations of U.S. Route 66 travelers from the 1920s through the 1960s could boast that they had climbed a real volcano.
We hiked into Amboy Crater this summer. Our observations and thoughts about the experience.