Kicking off Summer Hours at The Crater!
Celebrate Summer and longer days: and hit the road on Historic Route 66 stop in at the World’s Best Preserved Meteorite Impact Site!
Number One of Five Significant North American Meteorite Craters
Stunning images of the 5 most significant North American Meteorite Impact Craters. Barringer Meteorite Crater is listed first as one of the most recognizable and visited sites,
What as it like at the time of impact?
The Pleistocene era, also known as Ice Age, was the epoch of the Barringer Meteor Crater impact, approximately 50,000 years ago. It was quite a different landscape than what is seen now: a high desert plain. In fact it struck land which was covered with juniper-pinyon forest and megafauna such as mammoths and giant sloths! This image depicts quite a few of the animals which would have been present at the time of this impact.