Late in our trip to the Grand Canyon, while visiting the La Posada hotel, my husband and I took a day to visit a nearby attraction called Meteor Crater. Meteor Crater is about 45 minutes from Wilson over a vast expanse of flat, sandy, arid grasslands. Meteor Crater was far more interesting than either of us would have imagined, and relatively cheap to get into at $12 for adults/6 dollars for children. Meteor Crater is the only major attraction in the area.
We discovered that Meteor Crater is a very old, huge depression 0.74 miles in diameter and 550 feet deep. Apparently, in prehistoric times a meteor fell from outer space and impacted the Earth. The impact shattered the meteor. 0nly a small piece of the meteor remains (bottom picture). The only evidence of the impact of the meteor is the depression and skid marks (uplifted portions of land surrounding the crater).
2 comments:
This is amazing! You can tell that I have never visited Arizona, much less the Grand Canyon.
It looks as if this is most certainly a worthy place to add to our list of "places to experience"
Yes, it is. Viewing the Grand Canyon is an entirely different experience if you visit some of the other attractions in Arizona first. The Grand Canyon is all of the attractions (the painted desert, general landscape, and meteor crater) in one place.
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