We camped a night outside Flagstaff, it was a beautiful park with tall Ponderosa pine trees, but because it was at the base of an old volcano, the ground was completely covered in black cinder. It was very strange, kind of like black sand. But we had a beautiful site. You can't climb to the top of Sunset Crater anymore, but we were able to climb to the ridge of the Tempe crater, a half mile hike, straight up in this sand-like cinder. But we made it. It wasn't what we expected, I suppose it has been dormant for almost a thousand years! But you can see the lava flow and also, this black basin is the actual crater of the volcano.
The highlight of this stop was the ruins. Unlike Homolovi, there are actual structures in this park. This one, they had even reinforced so that tourists could explore in and on the actual ruin site. It was very cool.
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