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Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument

Arizona · AZ

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Sunset Crater is a cinder cone located north of Flagstaff in the U.S. state of Arizona, the youngest in a string of volcanoes close to the nearby San Francisco Peaks. The crater is within the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument.

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