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Capulin Volcano National Monument, New Mexico
In the northeast corner of New Mexico is Capulin Volcano National Monument. I had driving by it countless numbers of times not realizing that it was right there off US 87. Usually I had come through here at night, so it's forgivable. It only takes maybe 30 minutes of your time to see this little wonder. You take a spiral road from the plains to the crater. You can hike around the crater, and it affords wonderful views of the surrounding plains and other cinder cones. This is the throat of the cinder cone, the black rock in the middle is the plug from the last eruption- many thousands of years ago.
©1996, Jeffrey L. Cooper
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