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Top 10 Meteorite Impact Craters in America

Ten places we think are worth the trip, hand-picked, not an exhaustive list, just a place to start.

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Meteor Crater (Barringer Crater)

Meteor Crater (Barringer Crater)

Winslow, AZ

Best-preserved impact crater on Earth, 3,900 feet across and 560 feet deep, punched out 50,000 years ago and still looks fresh

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Odessa Meteor Crater

Odessa Meteor Crater

Odessa, TX

A 550-foot-wide dent in the West Texas scrub you can walk across in ten minutes

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Wetumpka Impact Crater

Wetumpka Impact Crater

Wetumpka, AL

An 85-million-year-old asteroid strike into a shallow sea, now a 5-mile ring of hills you can drive and climb to Bald Knob for the view across the rim

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Serpent Mound Impact Structure

Serpent Mound Impact Structure

Peebles, OH

A prehistoric snake-shaped effigy mound sits directly on top of a crater rim nobody explained for over a century

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Upheaval Dome

Upheaval Dome

Moab, UT

A 3-mile-wide bowl of rock strata twisted completely upside down, shocked quartz found in 2007 points to a bygone impact

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Middlesboro Crater

Middlesboro Crater

Middlesboro, KY

The only US city built inside the bowl of a meteor crater

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Crooked Creek Structure

Steelville, MO

A forested crater rim you can drive across without knowing it, unless you stop at the conservation area trail that follows its ridge

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Sierra Madera Crater

Sierra Madera Crater

Fort Stockton, TX

An 8-mile-wide ring of jumbled peaks rising out of flat West Texas desert, with highway signs marking where you cross into and out of the impact zone

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