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Fun fact: The Park operators get so few visitors who actually pay to see it that they genuinely get excited when someone does pay for the tour. The park is in the middle of a barren desert.
Terrible location really. What were they thinking?
Is this the Barringer Crater?
Are there fertile deserts?
Definitely. Deserts can have incredible biodiversity. A lot of species of cactus, sedges, euphorbia, composite flowers, wrens, songbirds, the list goes on.
Barren deserts probably are so destitute and lacking in humidity that practically nothing can grow there.
The word fertile has abundance as a qualifier. I don’t know if deserts could exactly be abundant, but there is an incredible amount of biodiversity in deserts.
My parents and I stopped there on a little trip from NM to Monterey, California. It was summer and I remember there being maybe 10 other visitors there. It’s a super cool place but yeah it’s in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. Even Eustace, Muriel and their pink dog would say it’s the middle of nowhere.
That’s actually sad. Makes me want to go just so they can have their happy time.
I used to drive between Denver and Phoenix a bunch and decided to stop in one time. They charge $29 just to see it, and put a fence around the entire crater so you can’t look at the hole unless you pay them.
Well to be fair, they increased the value of the land by using a giant magnet to attract the asteroid. We wouldn’t have asteroid craters if it weren’t for brave entrepreneurs like this.
What if everyone on Lemmy just showed up. Imagine they just end up with a large crowd one day
They put up fences several years ago so you could no longer see it from Meteor Crater Road. It’s not a bad tour honestly and it’s just off interstate 40 near Winslow, AZ. I’d recommend it, ONCE lol.
Awww. I’ve made their day…twice!
At this point it’s a family joke. I forced my parents to stop there when i was young, i dragged my S.O. to go there on a road trip, and I will take my child see it when the time comes.
It’s a huge nothing burger crater, but how often does one see a giant hole on the earth made by space!
I thought this was going to be a reference to RollerCoaster Tycoon for some reason.
Still a nice comment though and I’ll keep that in mind.
