We left Red Rock RV Park Monday morning the 27th of June headed for Arco, Idaho. Arco is the closest town to “Craters of the Moon National Monument”. It is about 18 miles east of the park. Actually we went to the campground at the monument and were going to stay there but just driving through the campground was a nightmare. There were large chunks or boulders of Lava next to the road and the turns were really tight. We circled through and came back to Arco to the Mountain View RV Park. This was a nice RV Park. It is a Good Sam Park. Arco is located in a high plain dessert. It isn’t a very pretty place but the climate was cool and dry. On the 28th we drove by to “Craters of the Moon” and I took a few pictures. This isn’t a place I would highly recommend, but if it isn’t too far out of the way, it is different and unusual. As you will see in the pictures it is a lava field that covers 750,000 acres. The lava flow didn’t come from volcano or volcanoes. It was actually formed from long fissures across the Snake River Plain. The amazing thing is that this occurred about 2000 years ago and geologists say it will happen again.
Gage and I walked to the top of a large Cinder Cone. I don’t know how high up it was but it was a steep 1/2 mile walk. I made several stops on the way up just to catch my breath. This is a picture looking back down to the parking lot from the top.
These are dwarf Monkeyflowers and they were just growing out of the loose lava rocks. The lava rocks were just covered with these flowers. There didn’t appear to be any soil at all.
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