TrailColorado Plateau
Lava Flow Trail
Easy1 mi loop50 ft gain
Crosses the base of the cinder cone over a 900-year-old lava field. Pines are only now taking root in the ash.
- Distance
- 1 mi loop
- Elevation gain
- 50 ft
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Trailhead
- Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
Before you go
Conditions, access, and honest warnings.
- A short loop across the base of the cinder cone through the lava field it produced.
- Climbing the cone itself is prohibited. The loop is the closest legal approach.
- Cinder and lava are abrasive and sharp. Closed shoes only, and keep dogs off the rough sections.
Trailhead park
Where this route begins.