Summary:
I would have loved to watch the night sky light up with the fireball hurling towards the earth.

Meteor Crater, (also known as Barringer Crater), is a huge hole in the dirt. This crater was hit 50,000 years ago by a meteorite weighing approximately 300,000 tons. Only an estimate 150 feet across, it made a hole almost a mile wide and 570 feet deep. Of course, how it did this was by traveling fast, very, very fast. To make a hole this big, it was probably traveling 28,600 miles per hour.

Though privately owned, this is a well run site. There's a visitor's center (with a hefty entrance fee) with lots of parking, several viewing areas, and an RV park just down the road.

It's hard to determine scale in the crater, but the bottom is way, way, way down there. So it might be best that there aren't any tours to the bottom. Still, I think it must be awesome to stand on the bottom of the crater and look up.

Features:
A visitors center with several exhibits, look-out points, a gift shop and a subway restaurant. If you get there early enough you can hike out for a short distance along the top of the rim.

If you're in an RV, the owners run a park just down the road with full hook-ups and wireless Internet was free when I was there.

Across the street you can see a delepidated tower where people were allowed to go up and look out to the crater.

Area Attractions:
Walnut Canyon Indian Cliff Dwellings, Grand Canyon, Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, Wupatki National Monument, Flagstaff, Lowell Observatory.

Food & Sundries:
There's a small market at the service station and RV park near I-40. There are Subway restaurants there and at the Visitors Center.

Directions:
The crater is located 35 miles east of Flagstaff. Take Exit 233 south from Interstate 40. Drive south approximately 6 miles following the signs.

There are two parking lots at the visitors center. The first is for buses and RVs, the second for standard autos.

Camping & RV:
There's a commercial RV park right at Exit 233.