{"id":9759,"date":"2024-05-06T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=9759"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:09","slug":"idaho-craters-of-the-moon-national-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=9759","title":{"rendered":"Idaho – Craters of the Moon National Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>Descending into the ancient volcano feels like being swallowed by a monster. I set up camp in the mouth of the beast, surrounded by 200-foot cliffs\u2014and am immediately overwhelmed with peace and quiet. But the tranquility in the crater bottom belies a violent past: Two-thousand years ago, molten rock gushed from these cracks in the earth, while ferocious explosions from thousand-foot-high cinder cones sent car-size boulders hurtling through the air. A quick foray from my campsite, 3.8 miles deep in Craters of the Moon National Monument<\/a><\/strong>, reveals evidence of this rocky past. Cylindrical cavities mark the spots where trees were entombed in flowing lava before rotting away, leaving their hollow forms in the hardened rock. Jagged chasms exist where ancient tunnels of lava formed and collapsed. A weekend of exploring these geologic wonders only fuels my curiosity\u2014and ensures that I\u2019ll be back soon.\u00a0 Link to story<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Anna Daly writes: Craters of the Moon National Monument<\/strong><\/a> hit a big milestone this month – turning 100 years old.
\nOn May 2nd, 1924, the more than 1,100 square mile area of volcanic formations and lava fields in Central Idaho\u2019s Snake River Plain was designated a national monument by President Calvin Coolidge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Descending into the ancient volcano feels like being swallowed by a monster. I set up camp in the mouth of the beast, surrounded by 200-foot cliffs\u2014and am immediately overwhelmed with peace and quiet. But the tranquility in the crater bottom belies a violent past: Two-thousand years ago, molten rock gushed from these cracks in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9764,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759\/revisions\/9764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}