Out on the loneliest stretch of Route 66 lies Amboy—a near-forgotten ghost town—and just beyond it, the striking Amboy Crater, a dormant volcano rising from the Mojave. We journeyed into this eerie ...

Amboy Crater is a cinder cone volcano in the Mojave Desert, known for its symmetrical shape and historical significance as a ...

Scientists will tell you that Amboy Crater, a volcanic cinder cone out in the Mojave Desert, has been dormant for maybe 10,000 years, but that doesn’t take into consideration its 1959 eruption that ...