# Amboy Crater

- **Country:** United States
- **Coordinates:** 34.543883, -115.791109
- **Df:** dmy-all
- **Url:** http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/ca/pdf/pdfs/needles_pdfs.Par.52076feb.File.dat/amboy.pdf
- **Date:** June 2007
- **Isbn:** 978-1-930193-26-0}}
- **Last:** McKinney | first = John
- **Type:** Dormant cinder cone
- **First:** Peter
- **Pages:** 146–147 | isbn = 978-0-89997-389-0
- **Title:** Amboy Recreation Site
- **Version:** BLM/CA/GI-2000/014+8322 REV. 6/07
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- **Location:** San Bernardino County, California, U.S.
- **Topo Map:** USGS Amboy Crater
- **Publisher:** Bureau of Land Management
- **Designation1:** NNL
- **Elevation Ft:** 944
- **Easiest Route:** Trail{{cite book
- **Last Eruption:** About 10,000 years ago
- **Prominence Ft:** 250
- **Designation1 Date:** May 1973

It is about equidistant from Barstow to the west and Needles to the east, and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of historic U.S. Route 66, near the town of Amboy in San Bernardino County. In 1973, Amboy Crater was designated the Amboy Crater National Natural Landmark. thumb|Amboy Crater at dusk

![Photo of Amboy Crater](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/AmboyCraterViewMarch2010.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amboy_Crater (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)