Getting to the Barringer Meteor Crater

Barringer Crater, also called Meteor Crater, is located in the United States of America (35º 2' N, 111º 1' W) in northern Arizona, about 35 miles (55 km) east of the city of Flagstaff. The crater is easily reachable, off Interstate Highway 40 at exit 233. View of Barringer (Meteor) Crater from I-40 Moderate resolution WMV (1.7 Mb)  Low resolution WMV (0.8 Mb)  Distant view of Barringer impact crater High resolution MPEG-1 (11.7 Mb)   Moderate resolution WMV (1.9 Mb)  Low resolution WMV (980 Kb)

ASTER satellite image of Barringer (Meteor) impact crater
Image: Livio Tournabene, University of Western Ontario

View of the Barringer impact crater from a distance (yellow dot on the image above)
Photo: G. Osinski, University of Western Ontario
Location: Off the side of the road approximately 2 kilometers from the visitor center
Scale: Crater diameter is approximately 1.2 kilometers

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