# Pisgah Crater

- **Country:** United States
- **Coordinates:** 34.746389, -116.375000
- **Type:** Cinder Cone
- **Map Width:** 280
- **Elevation Ft:** 2545
- **Volcanic Arc:** Lavic Lake volcanic field
- **Last Eruption:** c. 20,000 years BP
- **Prominence Ft:** 353
- **Label Position:** right

Pisgah Crater, or Pisgah Volcano, is a young volcanic cinder cone rising above a lava plain in the Mojave Desert, between Barstow and Needles, California in San Bernardino County, California. The volcanic peak is around south of historic U.S. Route 66-National Old Trails Highway and of Interstate 40, and west of the town of Ludlow. The volcano had a historic elevation of , but has been reduced to due to mining.

![Photo of Pisgah Crater](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Pisgah_Crater_%2825-10-2014%29.JPG)

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